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CIVL 350 Hydraulics 2 Units: 4.00
Topics in open channel flow including friction, specific energy, free-surface profiles, culverts and hydraulic-jump energy dissipaters. Lake dynamics and environmental hydraulics will be introduced. The basic underlying concepts of water resources and hydrology will be discussed.
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0.5, Tut: 0.5)
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0.5, Tut: 0.5)
Requirements: Prerequisites: CIVL 250
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Offering Term: F
CEAB Units:
Mathematics 0
Natural Sciences 0
Complementary Studies 0
Engineering Science 18
Engineering Design 30
Offering Faculty: Smith Engineering
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Simulate flow in open channels using HEC-RAS model.
- Apply conservation of energy and momentum concepts to analyze and design rapidly varied flow transitions in open channels.
- Calculate and sketch gradually varied flow profiles in open channels.
- Apply advection, diffusion and dispersion concepts to calculate mixing and transport of scalar variables in rivers.
- Apply hydrology concepts to compute the flow rate in open channels