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

The study includes mainly flow of newton fluids, partly also problems of unnewton fluids flow. Theoretical bases of kinematics of viscous fluids - three main equations. Up to date knowledge of pressure system flow and open channels in steady and unsteady regime.

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Physics, hydraulics, mathematics, specialized courses of water management

Aims

Improvement of hydraulics, particulary of flow with complicated structure. Gain knowledge is applicable in designing and mainly research activities together with application of mathematical models of fluid flow.

Basic Literature

KOLÁŘ, V., PATOČKA C., BÉM, J. Hydraulika. Praha: SNTL/ALFA, 1983. 480 p.
CHUNG. T.J. Computational Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 1012 p. ISBN 978-0-521-59416-2.
BATES, P.D. Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics. 1st Edition. Chichester: Wiley, 2005. 531 p. ISBN 0-470-84359-4.
MUNSON, B.R. YOUNG, D.F., OKIISHI, T.H. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics. New York: John Wiley&Sons, 1998. 877 p. ISBN 978-0-471-35502-X.

Recommended Reading

POZRIKIDIS, C. Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 1243 p. ISBN 978-0-19-975207-2.
VIOLEAU, D. Fluid Mechanics and the SPH Method: Theory and Applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 616 p. ISBN 978-0-19-965552-6.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

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.