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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Hydraulics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0119/01
Abbreviation HUL
Course title Hydraulics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Jan Unucka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Introduction to hydraulics. Hydrostatics and its basic laws and equations. Hydrodynamics, the basic flow equations of ideal and real fluids. Continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, wave approximations of the St Venant equations. Laminar and turbulent flow. Flow in open channels. Pressure flow in pipes. Drains. Hydraulic relations for filling and emptying dams. Bridges and culverts. Flow in inundation. Leaks. Hydraulics of sediment and dissolved substances. Application of hydraulics in technical and biotechnical channel adjustments. Hydraulic models and their basic principles - HEC-RAS, MIKE 11, MIKE 21c EPA SWMM.

Literature

BEDIENT, P.B., HUBER, W.C. et VIEUX, B.C.: Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis. 4th edition. Prentice Hall, London, 2007, 795 s.
HAMILL, L. (2001): Understanding Hydraulics. Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 640 s. ISBN: 978-0333779064 
JULIEN, P.Y. (2002): River Mechanics. Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press. 434 s. ISBN: 978-0521529709 

Advised literature

DYHOUSE, G.R. et al. Floodplain modelling Using HEC-RAS. Watertown, Bentley Inst. Press, 2007.
MAIDMENT, D., DJOKIC, D. ED. (2000):. Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling Support with Geographic Information Systems. /Redlands, ESRI Press. 232 s.