Course Details

Hydraulics

Academic Year 2024/25

BR004 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

9 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 4 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Relative rest fluids. Differential equation of motion of ideal and real fluid. 2. Basics of potential flow and its application. 3. Hydraulic jump I non-prismatic channel. Supercritical flow in channels and spillways, aeration of water flow. 4. Free and submerged water jets, flow around bodies. Action of water flow on surfaces. Application of impulse theory. 5. Emptying of tanks, non-prismatic tanks. Filling and emptying of lock chambers. Continuously changing unsteady flow. Shock waves in open channels. Shock waves in pipes, direct and indirect hydraulic shock. Time slope of shock wave. 6. Pipe systems, pump design, flow cavitation. 7. Flow in bridge profiles and culverts. 8. Cross influence of hydraulic elements from the point of view of energy losses. 9. Flow close to inlets, downflow baffle. 10. Flow of non-newton fluids, bigham and non-bigham matter flow. 11. Dimensional analysis, basics of model similarity in fluid mechanics. 12. Shaft overfall. Special types of overfalls, movable spillway constructions. Overflow of water with high submergence factor. 13. Darcy’s equation, filtration coefficient, specific leakage and mean velocity of water flow in voids. Hydraulics of wells in steady state.

Exercise

13 weeks, 4 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Computation of fluids characteristics in relative rest. 2. Hydraulic jump in prismatic and non-prismatic channel, computation of the stilling basin. 3. Supercritical flow in channels and spilways, aeration of water flow. 4. Computation of trajectory and shape of free and submerged water jets. 5. Flow around bodies. Action of water flow on surfaces. Application of impulse theory. 6. Emptying of prismatic and non-prismatic tanks. Filling and emptying of reservoirs. 7. Continuously changing unsteady flow. Shock waves in open channels and pipes, direct and indirect hydraulic shock. Time slope of shock wave. 8. Computation of flow dividing and combining, pump design, cavitation of wetted surface. 9. Flow in bridge profiles and culverts. 10. The flow in front of the inlets, baffles, computing of the safety and critical submerging of inlet. 11. Submerged overfall computation. Overflow of water with high submergence factor. 12. Shaft spillway. Special types of spillways, movable spillway constructions. Overflow of water with high submergence factor. 13. Darcy’s equation aplication, specific leakage. Capacity of wells in steady state.