Course Details

Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow

Academic Year 2024/25

BRB007 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Jandora, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

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/281926

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to open channel flow.
  2. Basic theory of open channels flow.
  3. I. Mathematical formulation of 1D flow problém.
  4. II. Mathematical formulation of 1D flow problém.
  5. Saint-Venant equations.
  6. Mathematical formulation of the problem of transportation and dispersion.
  7. Numerical solution.
  8. The movement of sediment load.
  9. The issue of determining the open channel roughness.
  10. Practical problems the flow calculation.
  11. Structures on streams (weirs, bridges, culverts).
  12. Hydraulic solutions crossing bridges and culverts with watercourses.
  13. The issue of ice phenomena on rivers.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, solving example No. 1.
  2. Creating a basic task in the HEC-RAS, procedure for the definition geometry data and boundary conditions. Solving the example.
  3. Start calculation, results presentation. Solution Example 1. HEC-RAS.
  4. Computation of the water levels in the reach of channel for various boundary conditions.
  5. Practicing on examples.
  6. Entering inefficient areas and levees.
  7. Determination of capacity in the specified section of the flow.
  8. Tributary, flow change location.
  9. Structures on stream – bridges.
  10. Structures on stream – culverts.
  11. Structures on stream – bed drop, weirs.
  12. Structures on stream – weirs.
  13. Presentation of exercises, presentations of dealt works in the workplace. Granting of credit.