CVEN 4350 – Hydraulic Engineering

      Spring, 2006

2006-2008 Catalog Data:         CVEN 4350: Continuation of CVEN 3350-Hydraulics emphasizing practical design applications of basic fluid mechanics principles in fluid measurement, machinery, closed conduit flow, open channel flow and hydraulic transients.  Presentation of oral and written design reports.
Prerequisite: CVEN 3350.

Textbook:                               Roberson, Cassidy, and Chaudhry, Hydraulic Engineering (2nd Edition, 1998); Instant Hydraulics Lab, Student Manual, Techline Instruments

Reference:                                Computer Applications in Hydraulic Engineering by Haestad Inc

                                      Fluid Mechanics by J. A. Khan, Holt Reinhart Winston, 1957.

Instructor:                                 Xing Fang, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Department

Goals:                                       (1) Apply mathematics, science & engineering principles. Apply concepts of fluid mechanics to analyze open channel flow, flow in pipe network with pumps, flow through floodplain, and study design of hydraulic facilities, e.g., dam or reservoirs (ABET Outcomes # a)

(2) Identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. Ability to identify and calculate hydraulic parameters needed for channel and pipe-network designs. (ABET Outcomes # e)

(3) Use techniques, skills and modern engineering tools. Use the computer program FlowMaster, WaterCAD, and CulvertMaster to analyze hydraulic design problems. (ABET Outcomes # k)

Prerequisites by Topics:            Hydraulics

Topics:

 1.   Open channel flow - uniform flow, gradually varied flow, design and measurement

 2.   Flow in conduits - energy losses, pipe systems, pipe materials and large conduit design

 3.   Dams and reservoirs - planning and safety, design capacity

 4.   Hydraulic machinery - characteristic curves, pumps operating in series or parallel, hydraulic turbines

 5.   Hydraulic structures - dam and hydroelectric facilities, pump intakes, diffuser design

 6.   Flood plain hydraulics - flood plain hydraulics and delineation

Design Projects and Computer usage:

 1.     Four design projects: Best hydraulic cross-section, Head losses and cost analysis, Hardy Cross Method - pipe network, Pipe junction-reservoirs

 2.     Computing exercises:  Introduction and applications of Haestad Method’s software FlowMaster, WaterCAD, and CulvertMaster.

 3.     Four computer projects: Open channel discharge, water surface profile computation, design pipe diameter between reservoirs, and pipe network system

 4.     Oral presentation on design projects

Laboratory projects:

 1.     Laboratory experiment projects:  Open channel flow, Flow measurement, pipe friction

 2.     Written communication exercise – students as groups to present a report on the 5 lab projects

 3.     Oral communication exercise – students as groups will present the results of a lab project to the class

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component:

This course contributes to the engineering science and engineering design component.

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared this course description:

                        Engineering Science Topics:      1 credit or 33%

                        Engineering Design Topics:   2 credits or 67%