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Open channel flow; pipe networks; scale and dimensional analysis; surface and ground water.
Hydraulics and Applied Hydrology is the second, and final, compulsory course on fluid mechanics in the undergraduate curriculum for civil and natural resources engineering students. It follows on from ENCN242, Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, in second year. The course is split into a series of self-contained topics that fall under the broad category of water resource engineering.The first half of the course focuses on knowledge and skills a practising civil or natural resources engineer will require in practice. This includes the analysis of steady open channel flow and the design and analysis of pipe network systems. In the second half of the course, we extend these focused applications into a diverse portfolio of topics that a practicing water resources engineer could encounter. We will introduce you to the engineering of hydrological systems, including groundwater wells, surface water management, and the mathematical foundations of more sophisticated fluid systems. These applications are an introduction towards more advanced topics that can be studied in fourth year and beyond. Examples of these later topics include modelling groundwater in underground aquifers (ENCN442), turbulence (ENCN441) and water hammer in pipes (ENCN446).
1. Analyse transitions, hydraulic jumps, uniform flow and gradually varied flow in steady open channel hydraulics. (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3)2. Analyse and design simple pipe networks. (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3)3. Explain the key hydrological processes that are important from an engineering perspective and apply models to quantify these processes. (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3)4. Apply principles of groundwater well design including material selection, testing and protection procedures. (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3)5. Analyse problems in fluid mechanics using tools of dimensional and scale analysis. (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3)
ENCN242
ENCI341
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Craig McConnochie
Markus Pahlow and Pedro Lee
1. The mid-semester test will cover Sections 1 and 2 (Steady Open Channel Flow and Pipe Network Systems). The final exam will cover Sections 3-5 (Surface Water Hydrology, Groundwater Well Design, and Dimensional and Scale Analysis). 2. All assignments must be submitted by the due date. Late submissions will not be accepted. If you are unable to complete and submit an assignment by the deadline due to personal circumstances beyond your control, you should discuss this with the lecturer involved as soon as possible. 3. Attendance at the Laboratory is compulsory and you will not be eligible to take the midterm test unless you have done so.4. For the tutorials, you do not have to get the calculations completely correct, only demonstrate that you have attempted all questions.Any student who has been impaired by significant exceptional and/or unforeseeable circumstances that have prevented them from completing any major assessment items, or that have impaired their performance such that the results are not representative of their true level of mastery of the course material, may apply for special consideration through the formal university process. The applicability and academic remedy/action associated with the special consideration process is listed for each assessment item below. Please refer to the University Special Consideration Regulations and Special Consideration Policies and Procedures documents for more information on the acceptable grounds for special consideration and the application process. Special Consideration for TutorialsThere is an automatic extension policy allowing students to drop any one tutorial, without notification or penalty. If you’ll be unable to complete more than one tutorial, you should contact the course coordinator for further exemption.Special Consideration for Midterm Test and Final ExamModerate/Serious/Severe Impact: Students will be offered an equivalent alternative test that will replace their original test mark. This test will be held in the first weeks of Semester 2 for the Midterm Test and in the week after the exam period for the Final Exam, at a date to be advised by the course coordinator.Note: All communication associated with the arrangement of equivalent alternative tests/exams will be conducted using official UC email accounts. The offer to sit an alternative assessment will come with a list of potential dates/times. Students will have a clearly specified amount of time to respond to the offer to sit the alternative assessment and accept one of the listed dates/times. If the offer is declined or no response is received in the specified time frame, the original assessment mark will be used to compute the course grade.
Electronic copies of course materials will be made available through Learn.Note that all lecture recordings, made available through LEARN, are copyright and are not for public dissemination.
Domestic fee $1,059.00
International fee $6,000.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .