• 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, 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  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, steady  uniform  and  non-
uniform  flow  in open channels, hydraulic models, and an introduction
to   multidimensional  ideal  fluid  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.

There are no formal prerequisites for this unit but students would  be
advantaged  with  prior  studies  in  basic  engineering  statics  and
calculus.