Course Details

Hydraulics and Hydrology

Academic Year 2025/26

BRA010 course is part of 2 study plans

​ BPC-SI / E Summer Semester 3rd year

​ BPC-MI Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Jandora, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289854

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Hydraulics, fluid properties, hydrostatic, pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces, floatation.
  • 3. Hydrodynamics, continuity and momentum equation, Bernoulli equation, application of impulse theorem.
  • 4.–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.–7. Steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels. Energetic head of profile. Critical flow. Supercritical and subcritical flow.
  • 8. Overflow of water on overfalls. Orifice discharge and overfalls with reservoirs.
  • 9. Hydraulic jump with bottom regime. Connection of water surface of two pools, design of rectangle stilling basin.
  • 10. Hydraulic computation of typical communication objects, bridges and culverts.
  • 11. Basics of groundwater flow (Darcy’s formula, filtration velocity, filtration coefficient, Dupuit theorem, groundwater flow in surrounding of a well).
  • 12. Hydrology: occurrence of water and water cycle, hydrological balance, definition and characteristics of watershed, precipitation, evaporation, measurement of hydrological variables.
  • 13. 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.–2. Calculations of communicating vessels and pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces.
  • 3. Ideal fluid flow calculations using the Bernoulli equation and the continuity equation.
  • 4.–5. Calculation of flow real fluid in pipelines (hydraulic long and short pipes).
  • 6.–7. Calculations of steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels and critical depth calculations.
  • 8. Calculations of orifice discharge and overflow.
  • 9. Calculations of hydraulic jump and design of a rectangular stilling basin.
  • 10. The calculations of water flow in bridges and culverts.
  • 11. Basic calculations of groundwater flow – wells.
  • 12. Calculation of runoff from the watershed.
  • 13. Estimates of m-day discharges.