Description
To give students knowledge in the areas of dimensional analysis, hydrostatics, pressure flows, characteristics and selection of pumps and turbines, flows through orifices and weirs and free-surface flows. At the end of the curricular unit students should have the following abilities:
• Expertise in the computation of hydrostatic forces acting on different surfaces.
• Expertise in the fundamental concepts of hydro-kinematics and hydrodynamics (pressures, mean velocities, forces, stresses and energy balances).
• Expertise in the hydraulic computation of steady flows in conduits under pressure.