Course Details
Hydraulics and Hydrology (K),(V)
Academic Year 2024/25
BR051 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1st Hydraulics, fluid properties, hydrostatic, pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces, floatation.
2nd Hydrodynamics, continuity and momentum equation, Bernoulli equation, application of impulse theorem.
3rd Water flow in pressure pipeline systems, laminar and turbulent flow.
4th Calculation of hydraulic long and short pipes and combined pipes. Inverted siphon, sucker, pump design.
5th Steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels.
6th Energetic head of profile. Critical flow. Supercritical and subcritical flow.
7th Overflow of water on overfalls. Orifice discharge and overfalls with reservoirs.
8th Hydraulic jump with bottom regime. Connection of water surface of two pools, design of rectangle stilling basin.
9th Hydraulic computation of typical communication objects, bridges and culverts.
10th Basics of groundwater flow (Darcy’s formula, filtration velocity, filtration coefficient, Dupuit theorem, groundwater flow in surrounding of a well).
11th Hydrology: occurrence of water and water cycle, hydrological balance, definition and characteristics of watershed, precipitation, evaporation, measurement of hydrological variables.
12th 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, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1st to 2nd Calculations of communicating vessels and pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces.
3rd to 4th Fluid flow calculations using the Bernoulli equation and the continuity equation.
5th to 6th Calculations of steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels and critical depth calculations.
7th to 8th Calculations of orifice discharge and overflow.
9th to 10th Calculations of hydraulic jump and design of a rectangular stilling basin. The calculations of water flow in bridges and culverts.
11th to 12th Basic calculations of groundwater flow - wells. Calculation of runoff from the watershed. Estimates of m-day discharges.