Engineering hydraulics
Also listed as: הידראוליקה הנדסית
Pipe networks, pumps, transients and open-channel flow. It maps onto Israeli water infrastructure more directly than any other elective in the catalogue.
- Semester
- Semester B
- Weekly hours
- 4h
- Counts as
- Department electives
- Interest areas
- Flow and thermal design · Environment and energy
Comes after
- Fluid mechanics 1
Opens up
- Water-systems and environmental research
What it covers
Closed conduits
- Pipe flow and head loss, Darcy–Weisbach, the Moody diagram, minor losses
- Pipeline systems in series, parallel and branching
- Pipe networks, Hardy Cross and EPANET
- Pumps and systems: characteristic curves, operating point, cavitation and NPSH, specific speed
- Water hammer and surge protection
Open channels
- Uniform flow, Chézy and Manning
- Specific energy, critical depth, the Froude number
- Hydraulic jump
- Gradually varied flow and surface-profile classification
- Flow measurement with weirs and notches
Results worth carrying out
Darcy–Weisbach
Manning
Froude number
Specific energy
Available net positive suction head
Figures worth knowing
- Moody chart
- Pump characteristic curves
- Specific-energy diagram
- Surface-profile classification
- Hydraulic-jump sketch
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פרויקט מחקר למצטיינים 1
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פרויקט מחקר למצטיינים 2
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