• Semester 1 (Day)
• Semester 1 (External)

Synopsis

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 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  unit  seeks to provide a grounding in fluid statics, fluid   flow
concepts  and  measurement, steady flow of  incompressible  fluids  in
pipelines, boundary layers on flat plates and in ducts, steady flow in
open channels, hydraulic models, and an introduction  to  the concepts
of   ideal fluid flow and curvilinear flow.  An  introduction to  some
fundamental  thermodynamic laws and principles  is  also  provided  in
recognition that most engineering systems incorporate  energy transfer
in some form.