Engineering Hydraulics

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

421-103 Engineering Statics or equivalent

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• appreciate fluid behaviour;
• formulate and solve problems in hydrostatics (that is involving fluids at rest) including submerged and floating bodies;
• formulate and solve problems in hydraulics (that is involving the use of control volumes) including continuity, energy and momentum balances;
• describe hydrodynamics problems using partial differential equations.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

This subject will be co-taught to Undergraduate and Postgraduate students in 2009.

This subject replaces:
421-305 Engineering Hydraulics 1