Undergraduate Course: Hydraulic Engineering 4 (CIVE10006)

Course Outline
School	School of Engineering	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course is intended to develop the theoretical concepts of unsteady flow in pipes and open channels.
Course description	Unsteady flow in Pipes Solving PDEs - Method of Characteristics applied to Unsteady Flow in Pipes Surge Tanks Unsteady flow in Open Channels - the St Venant Equations Gradually Varied Unsteady Flow - Flood Routing Methods Rapidly Varied Unsteady Flow - Surge and Dam Break Method of Characteristics applied to Unsteady Flow in Channels Coastal Waves - Linear Wave Theory, Shoaling and Refraction

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Fluid Mechanics (Civil) 3 (CIVE09014)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 65 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Degree Examination (100%).
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Hydraulic Engineering 4		2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Hydraulic Engineering 4		2:00

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course the student should be able to: demonstrate a knowledge of the application of the principles of continuity and momentum to pipe flow; understand solution of the equations of unsteady pipe flow by the method of characteristics, including finite difference approaches; incorporate a range of boundary conditions in unsteady pipe-flow problems; analyse unsteady flow problems in simple pipe networks; analyse problems of mass oscillation and surge tank design; demonstrate a knowledge of the derivation of the St Venant equations, and their range of applicability; demonstrate a knowledge of appropriate simplifications to the St Venant equations and of circumstances under which these might be used; understand the basics of flood routing and unsteady gradually varied flow; analyse simple rapidly varied unsteady flow problems; analyse a simple dam break problem; understand the solution, to first-order accuracy, of rapidly varied channel-flow and dam break problems by the method of characteristics; have a basic understanding of waves in coastal regions