Description
Hydraulics II curricular unit prepares students for civil engineering careers in the fields of planning, design, construction and management of water and wastewater systems as well as in the field of hydraulic structures for dams, irrigation schemes and drainage works.
Hydraulic II curricular unit covers concepts, methods and principles that provide a solid background in hydraulics and aim to allow a theoretical and practical approach to real-world problems and issues focusing in pipelines unsteady flows, open-channel flows, weirs and spillways and flows in porous media.
In particular, it is intended that the student acquires the following competencies: i) to characterize conditions of variable flow rates under pressure; ii) to characterize flow conditions in porous media; iii) calculate the flow in orifices and over weirs and to design discharge for several types of civil engineering works; and (iv) determine the flow conditions in mixed and composite channels as well as regulfs in prismatic and non-prismatic channels for constant flow