Hydraulics Engineering

Lectures

0.Hydraulics Engineering introduction

1 specific energy and critical depth

2 Flow Over Humps and through Constrictions

3 Hydraulic jump and its practical applications.

4 Broad Crested Weirs and Venturi Flumes

5 Discharge through orifices and over weirs under varying heads.

6 Unsteady Flow through pipe lines, Water hammer. Instantaneous and slow closure of valves

7 Surface Profiles and Backwater Curves in Channels of Uniform sections

8. Sediment Transport

9. Introduction to Hydro-power

10. Hydraulic Similitude

11.0.Dams engineering+Reservoirs

11.1.Dams & reservoirs

11.2. Reservoirs

12.Dimensional Analysis And Similitude & Model Analysis

13.Surge wave in open channel

14. Unsteady Flow

Important notes:

Dr. Habib Portion, Hydraulics Engineering Hand made notes

Bed load transport and theories

Initiation of bed load transport and theories

Open channel flow

Open channels problems

Specific energy

Planning of water storage reservoirs

Solution to problems

Solution to problems ch 11 Q76 to Q89 Daugherty. Made by Usman Iftikhar

Solution to problems ch11 Q59 to Q75 of Daugherty. made by Usman Iftikhar

Unsteady flow class work and problems

Lab reports

Lab Experiments:

Determination of Manning’s roughness coefficient and Chezy’s constant of laboratory flume

Experimental investigation of relationship between specific energy and depth of flow

Experimental study of flow characteristics over a hump or weir

Experimental study of characteristics of hydraulic jump

Design assignments:

To develop relationship between surface area, elevation and capacity of reservoir (To plot area elevation curve, elevation capacity curve, area capacity curve and combined area, elevation and capacity curve of reservoir)

Estimation of live storage capacity of a reservoir for various operational scenarios. (Plotting mass curves (mass inflow and demand curve), proposing suitable emptying and filling program of reservoir)

Estimation of hydropower potential for a given water power development scheme

To estimate bed load, total sediment load and half life of a reservoir

Computation of gradually varied flow profile by standard step method