River Hydraulics
General
Prefix
AHS
Course Number
338
Course Level
Undergraduate
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Science and Engineering
Description
Open channel flows and basic hydraulics. Flow resistance in rivers from a fluid mechanics perspective. Non-uniform flow and principles of hydraulic routing of floods. Modeling and applications to design. Sediment transport in alluvial channels. Basics of fluvial geomorphology and fluvial hydraulics. Lab.
Prerequisites
Credits
Min
4
Max
4
Repeatable
No
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
No
Cultural Diversity
No
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Apply the principles of conservation of mass and mechanical energy to the analysis of 1-dimensional open-channel flows. Evaluate, from physical and design perspectives, the applicability and limitations of Bernoulli's principle to prediction of 1-d open-channel flows.
Outcome
Apply the momentum principle to examples of open-channel flows such as hydraulic jumps or supercritical flows. Analyze uniform flows and evaluate applicability to natural or artificially created open-channel flows.
Outcome
Predict water surface profiles using numerical solutions of the governing equations under steady flow conditions, for realistic cases such as lake connections and natural or man-made rivers. Derive hydraulic performance graphs using the general theory of backwater profiles.
Outcome
Synthesize major (basic) elements of the unsteady flow theory, and the derivation of the Saint-Venant (shallow-water) equations. Apply basic concepts of this theory to the analysis of hydraulic routing of floods, and the use of standard hydraulic models.
Dependencies
Courses
AHS338
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Programs
AHS338
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