Course detail

Hydraulics and Hydrology (K),(V)

FAST-BRB001Acad. year: 2024/2025

Basics of fluid statics – properties of fluids, pressure in a fluid at rest, hydrostatic forces on plain and curved surface, floatation
Basics of hydrodynamics, water flow in pressure pipeline systems.
Flow in systems with a free surface, in open channels and flow over hydraulic structures.
New finding in hydraulics of water structures.
Basics of groundwater flow, wells, collection galleries.
Basics in hydrology, water balance, precipitation, evaporation, surface runoff from watershed and its analysis, maximum and minimum discharges, M-day and N-year discharges.
Students will take the course partly in computational and laboratory exercises.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Jandora, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Water Structures (VST)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, mechanics and statics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

By attending the course students will get basic information on behaviour of fluids, phenomenons generated in water flow in pressure system and open channels. The students will also learn the information on water cycle in nature and measuring of related qualitative and quantitative parameters.


Students complete goal of this course which include getting up principles of hydraulics and hydrology.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

JANDORA, Jan. Hydraulika – příklady. Studijní opora. Brno: FAST VUT, 2017.
JANDORA, Jan. Hydraulika a hydrologie. Studijní opora. Brno: FAST VUT, 2005.
JANDORA, Jan, Vlastimil STARA a Miloš STARÝ. Hydraulika a hydrologie. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7204-739-0.

Recommended reading

BOOR, Boris, Jiří KUNŠTÁTSKÝ a Cyril PATOČKA. Hydraulika pro vodohospodářské stavby. SNTL/ALFA, 1968.
JANDORA, Jan a Hana UHMANNOVÁ. Základy hydrauliky a hydrologie. Příklady. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 1999. ISBN 80-214-1160-0.
KOLÁŘ, Václav, Cyril PATOČKA a Jiří BÉM. Hydraulika. SNTL/ALFA, 1983.
MUNSON, Bruce R. a kol. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics. New York: John Wiley&Sons, 2013. ISBN 978-1-118-11613-5.
WIDDEN, Martin. Fluid mechanics. New York: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1996. ISBN 978-0-333-51799-4.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-SI Bachelor's

    specialization VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme CZV1-AKR Lifelong learning

    specialization PBC , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jan Jandora, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Daniel Marton, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Hydraulics, fluid properties, hydrostatic, pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces, floatation.

2. Hydrodynamics, continuity and momentum equation, Bernoulli equation, application of impulse theorem.

3. Water flow in pressure pipeline systems, laminar and turbulent flow.

4. Calculation of hydraulic long and short pipes and combined pipes. Inverted siphon, sucker, pump design.

5. Steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels.

6. Energetic head of profile. Critical flow. Supercritical and subcritical flow.

7. Overflow of water on overfalls. Orifice discharge and overfalls with reservoirs.

8. Hydraulic jump with bottom regime. Connection of water surface of two pools, design of rectangle stilling basin.

9. Hydraulic computation of typical communication objects, bridges and culverts.

10. Basics of groundwater flow (Darcy’s formula, filtration velocity, filtration coefficient, Dupuit theorem, groundwater flow in surrounding of a well).

11. Hydrology: occurrence of water and water cycle, hydrological balance, definition and characteristics of watershed, precipitation, evaporation, measurement of hydrological variables.

12. Surface runoff from watershed and its determination. Flow regimes in open channels. Maximum and minimum discharges, m-day and N-year discharges, winter regime, influence on runoff regime, influence of reservoirs on regulation of outflow from watershed, etc.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Pavel Zubík, Ph.D.
Ing. Michal Žoužela, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.–2. Calculations of communicating vessels and pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces.

3.–4. Fluid flow calculations using the Bernoulli equation and the continuity equation.

5.–6. Calculations of steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels and critical depth calculations.

7.–8. Calculations of orifice discharge and overflow.

9.–10. Calculations of hydraulic jump and design of a rectangular stilling basin. The calculations of water flow in bridges and culverts.

11.–12. Basic calculations of groundwater flow – wells. Calculation of runoff from the watershed. Estimates of m-day discharges.