Course Details

Hydromechanics

Academic Year 2025/26

DRB023 course is part of 4 study plans

​ DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year

​ DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Jandora, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/290128

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Fluid continuum.
  • 2.–3. Kinematics of fluids – basic equation for viscous fluid.
  • 4. Movement range.
  • 5. Phenonmenon similitude.
  • 6. Local loss of energy, singularities.
  • 7.–8. Open channel flow.
  • 9. Hydraulic jumps in divergent stilling pools.
  • 10. Bridges, weirs in extreme hydrologic conditions.
  • 11.–12. Flow in diffusion régime.
  • 13. Unnewton models.