Engineering Hydraulics & Hydrology

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

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At the conclusion of this subject students should be capable of solving a wide range of commonly encountered hydraulic problems in rivers and canals and will have acquired a user-oriented knowledge in engineering hydrology with sufficient theory to allow them to pursue further study in the field.

Topics covered include the energy momentum principles and their application to a variety of open channel flow problems: uniform flow; unsteady flow in open channels, including the long wave equations and flood propagation by diffusion and kinematic routing; steady gradually-varied flow and the numerical calculation of surface profiles; rigid-boundary and erodible channels and sediment transport in rivers and canals; measurement of discharge; risk probability in hydrology and engineering works; the hydrologic cycle; streamflow and its measurement; flood frequency analysis; estimating flood hydrographs; estimating yield; stochastic data generation; design rainfalls and the 'rational method' with particular application to urban drainage systems and their design; and groundwater, with confined and unconfined aquifers and steady and unsteady well hydraulics.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals

• ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution