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Institute of Water Structures (VST-VST)

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

Mathematics, physics, mechanics, statics, elasticity and strength and earth mechanics

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Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

1.-2. Hydraulics, fluid properties, hydrostatic, pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces, floatation.
3. Hydrodynamics, continuity and momentum equation, Bernoulli equation, application of impulse theorem.
4.-5. Water flow in pressure pipeline systems, laminar and turbulent flow. Calculation of hydraulic long and short pipes and combined pipes. Inverted siphon, sucker, pump design.
6.-7. Steady uniform flow with free surface in open channels. Energetic head of profile. Critical flow. Supercritical and subcritical flow.
8. Overflow of water on overfalls. Orifice discharge and overfalls with reservoirs.
9. Hydraulic jump with bottom regime. Connection of water surface of two pools, design of rectangle stilling basin.
10. Hydraulic computation of typical communication objects, bridges and culverts.
11. Basics of groundwater flow (Darcy’s formula, filtration velocity, filtration coefficient, Dupuit theorem, groundwater flow in surrounding of a well)
12. Hydrology: occurrence of water and water cycle, hydrological balance, definition and characteristics of watershed, precipitation, evaporation, measurement of hydrological variables.
13. Water courses and their characteristics. Surface runoff from watershed and its determination.
14. 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.

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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.

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

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JANDORA, Jan: Hydraulika a hydrologie. Studijní opora. FAST VUT v Brně, 2005. (CS)
JANDORA, Jan, STARA, Vlastimil, STARÝ, Miloš: Hydraulika a hydrologie. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o. Brno, 2002. ISBN 978-80-7204-739-0. (CS)

BOOR, Boris, KUNŠTÁTSKÝ, Jiří, PATOČKA, Cyril: Hydraulika pro vodohospodářské stavby. SNTL/ALFA, 1968. (CS)
JANDORA, Jan, UHMANNOVÁ, Hana: Základy hydrauliky a hydrologie. Příklady. CERM, s.r.o. Brno, 1999. ISBN 80-214-1160-0. (CS)
KOLÁŘ, Václav, PATOČKA, Cyril, BÉM, Jiří: Hydraulika. SNTL/ALFA, 1983. (CS)
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WIDDEN, Martin: Fluid Mechanics. MACMILLAN PRES LTD, 1996. ISBN-10: 0333517997. (EN)