Hydraulic analysis and design
Summary
Water is vital for life but also a powerful natural force. Hydraulic engineering addresses the sustainable management of water for reliable supply, renewable energy, and protection from hazards. Introducing to the fundamentals of hydraulic analysis and the design of key hydraulic structures.
Content
- Introduction and review of fundamentals: fluid properties, control volume approach and continuity equations, hydrostatics
- Pressurized pipe flow: energy equation, grade lines, headlosses, forces in pipes, simple network, pipes in series, pipes in parallel, branching pipes, Hardy-Cross method, pumps, EPANET
- Open Channel Flows: steady uniform flow, specific energy, gradually varied flow, rapidly varied flow, HEC-RAS
- Hydraulic structures: discharge measurements and weirs, spillways and gates, stilling basins and energy dissipators
- Channel design: stable channel design, intro to erosion hydraulics, culverts
Keywords
Hydraulic design, pressurized pipes, open channel flows, artificial and natural channels, hydraulic infrastructures
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Fluid Mechanics
Recommended courses
Hydrology for Engineers
Important concepts to start the course
Fluid mechanics fundamentals, intro of informatics and programming
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Solve basic hydrostatic problems by computing forces on submerged objects.
- Derive and understand the fundamental equations of continuity, energy, and momentum.
- Apply fundamentals to solve practical and most common problems in hydraulic engineering.
- Analyze and Solve basic open channel problems.
- Design simple hydraulic structures required for water use.
- Optimize the sizing of simple hydraulic structures such as channels and pipes.
- Sketch the essential elements of hydraulic structures.
Transversal skills
- Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
- Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.
- Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
- Assess one's own level of skill acquisition, and plan their on-going learning goals.
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
- Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.
- Take feedback (critique) and respond in an appropriate manner.
- Take responsibility for environmental impacts of her/ his actions and decisions.
Teaching methods
- 3 hours of weekly lectures, carried out at the blackboard and with the aid of projected material
- 2 hours of weekly exercises
Expected student activities
- Active engagement during classes and exercise sessions by asking questions
- Completion of the moderate amount of homework requested
- Regular attendance to classes and exercise sessions and a moderate amount of homework should suffice to complete the class requirements in a satisfactory manner
- Home study
Assessment methods
- Continuous assessment (30% of total grade)
- Final written exam (70% of total grade)
Supervision
| Office hours | Yes |
| Assistant.e.s | Yes |
| Forum | Yes |
Resources
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
No
Bibliography
Mays, L.W., 2019. "Water Resources Engineering", 3rd Edition. John Wiley & Sons
Munson, B.R., et al., 2013 "Fluids mechanics". 7th Edition. Wiley.
Polycopié by Dr. Giovanni De Cesare and Dr. Pedro Manso "Ouvrages et Aménagements hydrauliques". Edition 2024, en deux volumes: Volume I (notes du cours), Volume II (cahier d'exercices)
"Constructions Hydrauliques" par W.Hager et A. Schleiss (TGC, Vol. 15, nouvelle édition 2009)
Moodle Link
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Hydraulic analysis and design
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Hydraulic analysis and design
- Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory