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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
Introduction to behaviour of water, types of channels and classification
1 of flows, energy equation and total energy line and flow analysis Lecture Notes
Steady flow type: Uniform flow (UF) - Chezy equation, relative
2 thickness, Darcy-Weisbach, Manning’s formula and problems using Lecture Notes
these equations
Computations of UF- normal depth, critical slopes, prismatic channel
3 for uniform flow. Lecture Notes
Design of channels: Hydraulically most efficient section – Design of
4 irrigation canals – non-erodible, erodible and grassed types Lecture Notes
Gradually varied flow (GVF) – Description, differential equation of GVF,
5 classification and analysis of flow profiles. Lecture Notes

Computations of flow (GVF) – Transitional depth, design of channels
6 for GVF. Lecture Notes
Rapidly varied flow (RVF) - hydraulic jump, classification of jumps,
7 design for hydraulic jump and applications of jumps Lecture Notes

8 RVF-flow measurements –derivations and designs on RVF Lecture Notes

9 Unsteady flow type - St. Venant equations, implicit methods Lecture Notes

10 Unsteady flow type - St. Venant equations, explicit methods Lecture Notes
Dimensional and model analysis: Rayleigh’s method, Buckingham’s pi-
11 theorem-similitude-dimensional numbers. Lecture Notes

12 Model study – Reynolds number, Froude number, Weber number Lecture Notes

13 Weber classification method Lecture Notes

14 Unsteady flow in channels Lecture Notes

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