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In common with many other areas of engineering, the body of knowledge within the traditional fluid mechanics areas has expanded widely to a point where the different disciplines of engineering need different specialised knowledge. This is reflected in the acceptance of "hydraulics" or "hydraulic engineering" as a specialist field of study of prime interest to civil, mining, environmental and agricultural engineers. Since water can largely be regarded as incompressible, some of the traditional concepts of fluid mechanics need to be treated only briefly to permit a greater grounding in the types of problems encountered by hydraulic engineers. The course seeks to provide grounding in fluid statics, steady uniform and non-uniform incompressible flow in pipelines and channels, pumped systems, culvert hydraulics and flow measurement.

The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. On completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. describe the relevant properties of fluids;
2. calculate pressures and forces on floating and immersed bodies;
3. undertake simple stability analyses for small gravity dams or weirs;
4. determine the rolling stability of a prismatic floating body;
5. analyse and design simple pipelines for steady flow;
6. select a pump to meet a specified duty;
7. match a pump to a pipeline system and determine the operating point of a pump;
8. analyse pump and pipeline systems involving single and multiple pumps;
9. solve simple steady uniform and non-uniform open channel flow problems;
10. design rigid boundary channels;
11. classify gradually varied flow profiles;
12. apply the concepts of specific energy and specific force in open channel flow;
13. design pipe and box culverts;
14. estimate the head-discharge relationship for common flow measuring devices.