CS4002:03
Hydraulic Engineering
Townsville
Prerequisites: CS3008
39 lectures, 26 tutorials, 13 hours practicals. First semester.
Available to civil and environmental engineering students.
Hydraulics – open channel flow, channel transitions, flood routing, pipe networks, water hammer; Hydrology – hydrological cycle, runoff determination, groundwater/seepage, hydrological frequency analysis; Coastal Engineering – waves and wave spectra, wave generation and transformation, coastal flooding.
Learning Objectives:
- understand and define basic hydraulic concepts, properties and variables;
- understand the derivations of the techniques commonly used in hydraulic analysis and design;
- understand the simplifications and assumptions of the techniques commonly used in hydraulic engineering analysis;
- solve analysis and design problems in hydraulic, hydrological and coastal engineering.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).