| Semester 1, 2023 Toowoomba On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Agriculture and Environmental Science |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCNS or GDNS or MENS or MEPR
Overview
Understanding and implementing hydraulic concepts is a fundamental skill of the professional engineer. Water is both an important natural resource and a mechanism for potential damage and failure of engineering assets. This course aims to provide the theoretical background and design skills to enable students to solve practical problems relating to water flow.
This course builds on prior knowledge of fluid mechanics, applying hydraulic engineering principles to pipeline and open channel flow systems. Students are exposed to coastal hydraulics, the characteristics of waves and behaviour of natural streams and rivers. The course will focus on the design of hydraulic structures including both static and momentum forces. Concepts of fluid dynamics are applied to closed conduits including the impacts of pressure transients and pipeline surge. Students will utilise numerical packages to model complex hydraulic systems.
Course learning outcomes
- Design a range of hydraulic structures including open channels, weirs, flumes, control gates and energy dissipaters;
- Analyse the behaviour of coastal waves and currents and interactions with hydraulic structures;
- Apply hydraulic principles to evaluate the process of sediment erosion, transport, deposition and river morphology;
- Apply hydraulic theory to evaluate pipeline flow and design pumped pipeline systems;
- Evaluate and mitigate the impacts of pressure transients in pipeline systems;
- Undertake hydraulic analysis and employ hydraulic modelling principles to water flow and distribution systems.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Principles of Open Channel Hydraulics | 10.00 |
| 2. | Design of Open Channels | 10.00 |
| 3. | Hydraulic Structures | 20.00 |
| 4. | Waves and Coastal Currents | 15.00 |
| 5. | Loose Boundary channel hydraulics and sediment transport | 10.00 |
| 6. | Fundamentals of pressurised pipeline flow | 5.00 |
| 7. | Unsteady Pipeline flow, Water hammer and Surge | 15.00 |
| 8. | Numerical Methods and Hydraulic Modelling | 15.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
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There is no required textbook or materials for this course..
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiz | No | 10 | 1 |
| Report 1 | No | 30 | 1,2,3 |
| Report 2 | No | 20 | 4,5 |
| Report 3 | No | 40 | 1,2,3,6 |