• 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 steady uniform
and  non-uniform incompressible flow in pipelines and channels, pumped
systems   flow  measurement,  hydraulic  similitude  and  introductory
thermodynamics.

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