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.
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.
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.