CIV343

Course Description

This is the second course in Water Resources Engineering. It is an applied course of the fundamentals given in the perquisite fluid mechanics course. The course covers the following topics: laminar and turbulent flows; surface and form resistance; flow in pipes; hydraulic machinery, unsteady flow; flow in open channels. In addition to the lectures, the course includes also laboratory experiments to demonstrate various phenomena encountered in the hydraulics. These include the following experiments: Lab-1: the Osborne-Reynolds laminar – turbulent flow to observe the laminar, transitional and turbulent flow in a test pipe and to observe the velocity profile; Lab-2: the broad crested weir to determine the relationship between upstream head and discharge for water flowing over a long base

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