CCE 34000 – Hydraulics

Credits and contact hours

  • 3 credits
  • Lecture that meets 3 times per week for 50 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks

Specific course information

  • Catalog description: Fluid properties; hydrostatics; kinematics and dynamics of fluid flows; conservation of mass, energy, and momentum; flows in pipes and open channels. Formal laboratory experiments.
  • Prerequisites: Undergraduate level CCE 29800 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level ME 25100 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level AAE 20300 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level CCE 25100 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level ME 27400 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level ME 27500 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level CCE 27500 Minimum Grade of C-
  • Course status: Required course

Specific goals for the course

  • Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
    • Apply fundamental concepts and techniques in fluid mechanics in order to perform basic analysis and design of hydraulic systems involving static and flowing fluids.
    • Perform basic fluid mechanics calculations on engineering systems to estimate pressures, velocities, forces, etc.
    • Recognize and differentiate between different fluid mechanics concepts in order to analyze hydraulic systems in Civil Engineering.
    • Explain the statics and dynamics of various hydraulic systems found in Civil Engineering in terms of fundamental fluid mechanics concepts.
  •  Relationship of course to program outcomes
    • Outcome 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.

Topics

  • Fluid properties
  • Hydrostatics
    • Hydrostatic pressure variation in incompressible fluids
    • Manometers and barometers
    • Buoyancy force
    • Forces on submerged planar surfaces
    • Properties of U.S. Standard Atmosphere
  • Bernoulli Equation
    • Streamlines and flow classification
    • Bernoulli equation along a streamline
    • Applications of Bernoulli Equation
  • Viscous flow and flow in pipes and ducts
    • Viscosity and shear stress
    • Laminar and turbulent flow
    • Pipe flow energy equation
    • Moody diagram and major losses
    • Minor losses
    • Advanced problems in pipe flow
  • Conservation of mass
    • Steady flow
    • Unsteady flow
  • Conservation of linear momentum
  • Open channel flow
    • Flow classifications
    • Uniform flow, Manning’s Equation
    • Specific energy
    • Hydraulic jump
    • Weirs
  • Flow past immersed bodies
    • Drag and lift coefficients
    • Applications