Course Details

Hydraulics

Academic Year 2024/25

BRA003 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 3rd year

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. Properties of liquids. Relative rest fluids. Differential equation of motion of ideal and real fluid. 2. Mechanical energy losses caused by liquid flow. Influence of hydraulic elements distance on the mechanical energy losses. 3. Free and submerged water jets, flow around bodies. Action of water flow on surfaces. Application of impulse theory. 4. Overflow of basic and special types of weirs, movable spillway constructions capacity. Overflow of water with high submergence factor. 5. Emptying of tanks, non-prismatic reservoirs. 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. Hydraulic jump in prismatic and non-prismatic channel. Supercritical flow in channels and spillways, aeration of water flow. 8. Flow in bridge profiles and culverts. 9. Shock waves in open channels. Shock waves in pipes, direct and indirect hydraulic shock. Time slope of shock wave. 10. Flow close to inlets, downflow baffle. 11. Flow of non-newton fluids, bingham and non-bingham matter flow. 12. Basics of model similarity in fluid mechanics. Limit conditions of the similarity on the hydraulics models. 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. Hydrostatic force calculation. 2. Computation of mechanical energy losses caused by liquid flow. 3. Computation of trajectory and shape of free and submerged water jets. 4. Overflow of basic and special types of weirs, movable spillway constructions capacity computation. Overflow of water with high submergence factor. 5. Emptying of prismatic and non-prismatic tanks. Filling and emptying of reservoirs. 6. Computation of flow dividing and combining, pump design, cavitation of wetted surface. 7. Hydraulic jump in prismatic and non-prismatic channel. 8. Computation of the stilling basin. 9. Supercritical flow in channels and spillways, aeration of water flow. 10. Flow in bridge profiles and culverts computation. 11. Time slope of shock wave in pipes computation. 12. Computing of the inlet safety and critical submerging. 13. Darcy’s equation application, specific leakage. Capacity of wells in steady state.