Course detail

Hydromechanics

FAST-DRB023Acad. year: 2024/2025

The study includes mainly flow of newton fluids, partly also problems of unnewton fluids flow. Theoretical bases of kinematics of viscous fluids - three main equations. Up to date knowledge of pressure system flow and open channels in steady and unsteady regime.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

8

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jan Jandora, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Water Structures (VST)

Entry knowledge

Physics, hydraulics, mathematics, specialized courses of water management

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Improvement of hydraulics, particulary of flow with complicated structure. Gain knowledge is applicable in designing and mainly research activities together with application of mathematical models of fluid flow.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BATES, P.D. Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Environmental Hydraulics. 1st Edition. Chichester: Wiley, 2005. 531 p. ISBN 0-470-84359-4.
CHUNG. T.J. Computational Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 1012 p. ISBN 978-0-521-59416-2.
KOLÁŘ, V., PATOČKA C., BÉM, J. Hydraulika. Praha: SNTL/ALFA, 1983. 480 p.
MUNSON, B.R. YOUNG, D.F., OKIISHI, T.H. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics. New York: John Wiley&Sons, 1998. 877 p. ISBN 978-0-471-35502-X.

Recommended reading

POZRIKIDIS, C. Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 1243 p. ISBN 978-0-19-975207-2.
VIOLEAU, D. Fluid Mechanics and the SPH Method: Theory and Applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 616 p. ISBN 978-0-19-965552-6.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DKA-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPA-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPC-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPC-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jan Jandora, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Fluid continuum.

2.–3. Kinematics of fluids – basic equation for viscous fluid.

4. Movement range.

5. Phenonmenon similitude.

6. Local loss of energy, singularities.

7.–8. Open channel flow.

9. Hydraulic jumps in divergent stilling pools.

10. Bridges, weirs in extreme hydrologic conditions.

11.–12. Flow in diffusion régime.

13. Unnewton models.