Course Details
Hydraulics and Hydrology
Academic Year 2024/25
BR005 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1 to 2 Hydraulics, fluid properties, hydrostatic, pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces, floatation.
3rd Hydrodynamics, continuity and momentum equation, Bernoulli equation, application of impulse theorem.
4 to 5 Water flow in pressure pipeline systems, laminar and turbulent flow. Calculation of hydraulic long and short pipes and combined pipes. Inverted siphon, sucker, pump design.
6 to 7 Steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels. Energetic head of profile. Critical flow. Supercritical and subcritical flow.
8th Overflow of water on overfalls. Orifice discharge and overfalls with reservoirs.
9th Hydraulic jump with bottom regime. Connection of water surface of two pools, design of rectangle stilling basin.
10th Hydraulic computation of typical communication objects, bridges and culverts.
11th Basics of groundwater flow (Darcy’s formula, filtration velocity, filtration coefficient, Dupuit theorem, groundwater flow in surrounding of a well).
12th Hydrology: occurrence of water and water cycle, hydrological balance, definition and characteristics of watershed, precipitation, evaporation, measurement of hydrological variables.
13th Surface runoff from watershed and its determination. Flow regimes in open channels. Maximum and minimum discharges, m-day and N-year discharges, winter regime, influence on runoff regime, influence of reservoirs on regulation of outflow from watershed, etc.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1 to 2 Calculations of communicating vessels and pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces.
3rd Ideal fluid flow calculations using the Bernoulli equation and the continuity equation.
4 to 5 Calculation of flow real fluid in pipelines (hydraulic long and short pipes).
6 to 7 Calculations of steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels and critical depth calculations.
8th Calculations of orifice discharge and overflow.
9th Calculations of hydraulic jump and design of a rectangular stilling basin.
10th The calculations of water flow in bridges and culverts.
11th Basic calculations of groundwater flow - wells.
12th Calculation of runoff from the watershed. 13th Estimates of m-day discharges.