Hydraulics

Recommended Prerequisites

Previous knowledge of mathematics and physics.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes with exposition and demonstration of basic concepts, often using audiovisual media and visits to the Water Resources and Environment Hydraulics Laboratory of the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra.

Practical classes where students solve exercises of a more applied character, with greater volume of computations and perform, in group, laboratory experiments that are later object of a report.

Learning Outcomes

The discipline of Hydraulics aims to provide students with a complementary training to the fundamental concepts of hydraulics, started in the discipline of Fluid Mechanics. It is complemented by further disciplines of hydraulics, which aims to enable them with a solid knowledge indispensable for understanding and analysis of hydraulic phenomena.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Similitude theory. Turbomachinery. Open-channel flow. Orifices and spillways. Hydraulic flowmeters. Water quality modelling.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 20.0%
Exam: 80.0%

Bibliography

[1] Quintela, A. - “Hidráulica”, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1981.

[2] Oliveira L. A. e A. G. Lopes (2016) – "Mecânica dos Fluidos" (5ª ed.).ETEP - LIDEL.

[3] White, F. M. (2016) Fluid Mechanics (8th ed). McGraw-Hill Education, New York. (também disponíveis edições em Português).

[4] Boulos, P. F., T. Altman e K. Sadhal (1992). Computer modeling of water quality in large multiple source networks. Appl. Math. Modeling. 16: 439-445.

[5] Rossman, L. A.   (2000). EPANET 2 USER'S   MANUAL. Cincinnati, United  States Environmental Protection Agency , U.S.A.

[6] Carmo, J. S. C. (2004). Modelação em hidráulica fluvial e ambiente, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-0364-3