| | Introduction, Fluid properties, Basic units. Fluid statics. Pressure and its measurements. Forces on plane and curved submerged surfaces, buoyancy & floatation. Fluids in motion. Flow kinematics and visualization. Basic control volume approach. Differential and integral continuity equation. Pressure variation in flowing fluids. Euler’s and Bernoulli’s equations. Applications of Bernoulli equation. Momentum principle and its applications. Navier-Stokes equations. Energy equation, Hydraulic and energy grade lines dimensional analysis and similitude. Surface resistance and introduction to boundary layer theory. Flow in conduits, laminar and turbulent flows, frictional and minor losses, piping systems. | Third Year | | | Steady flow in open channels, gradually varied flow in open channels, steady flow in pressure conduits, fluid measurements. Hydromachinery: pumps and turbines | Third Year | | | Systems analysis of surface water, groundwater, and combined water resources. Analysis and design of convertible, distributing, conservation, and flood control reservoirs. Analysis and design of water transporting, and distributing systems using channels and pipe lines. Planning and management of water resources. Water resources economics. Local and international water law. Usage of statistics and probability in water resource design and management decision making. | Fifth Year | | | Hydrological process in nature, rainfall-runoff analysis, measurement of surface water flow, unit hydrograph analysis, hydrological statistics and probability theory, hydrological routing, computer models in surface hydrology and their application.
| MSc | | | This course is intended for Senior Hydraulic Engineers who have already completed the Basic and Intermediate Hydraulic Courses. The training involved in this course is at a notably higher level than the first two courses | MSc | | | Design Discharge: run-off, design flood and estimation of peak flood. Seepage and uplift pressure: Bligh’s creep and Lane’s weighted creep theory. Hydraulic jump and energy dissipation devices: normal and sequent depths, forms, energy dissipaters and stilling basin, and U/S and D/S protections. Control structures: diversion works, weirs, sediment control devices, falls and transitions. Cross drainage works: siphon, aqueduct, culverts and outlet works | Fifth Year | | | Introduction, the hydrologic cycle and its components, precipitation, evaporation and transpiration, infiltration, stream flow. Rainfall-runoff analysis and its application, peak flow calculations, flood routing. Design floods, hydrologic forecast and design criteria. Groundwater hydrology and well hydraulics. Computer applications. | Fourth Year | | | Descriptive statistics, discrete and continuous random variables and probability distributions, joint probability distributions, point and interval estimation, tests of hypothesis, correlation and regression, analysis of variance, time series | Fourth Year |
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