MID8102: Applied Hydraulics

The course introduces students to the fundamental principles of hydraulics, open channel and pipe flow hydraulics; application of hydraulic principles in the design of hydraulic structures and selection and operation of hydraulic machines.
The course also covers concepts of unsteady flow, sediment transport in irrigation canals, simulation of system hydraulics, and water management system modelling.

Course objectives

• To enhance students understanding of the principles of hydraulics;
• To apply principles of hydraulics in design of hydraulic structures;
• To enable students to apply hydraulics principles in irrigation and drainage designs;
• To apply principles of hydraulics in selection and operation of hydraulic machines.
• To explain the concepts of unsteady flow.
• To apply hydrodynamic models e.g. DUFLOW for water quantity analysis in irrigation and drainage networks.
• To explain various flow control systems used in irrigation and drainage systems.
• To explain concepts of sediment transport in irrigation canals.
• To discuss water management system modelling utilizing GIS.

Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students are able to:

• Apply the principles of hydraulics in the design, analysis and evaluation hydraulic structures for irrigation and drainage systems;
• Apply principles of hydraulics in selection and operation of hydraulic machines
• Make simple unsteady flow computations for open channels and closed conduits.
• Apply Duflow for non-steady flow phenomena in open irrigation and drainage networks; and to evaluate the results and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the model for solving surface flow problems.
• Assess the advantages and disadvantages of various numerical schemes for solving sets of equations in surface flow modelling and to select the appropriate models for stationary and non-stationary flow in open channels and in pipes and to evaluate the results.