CE 531 - Open Channel Hydraulics
Required textbook: Open Channel Hydraulics, 3rd Edition by Terry W. Sturm (2021)
Offered in the Spring semester every odd year
Contents
1 Lectures
- Lecture 1: Introduction to open channel hydraulics
- Lecture 2: Basic equations in open channel hydraulics
- Lecture 3: Dimensional analysis
- Lecture 4: Specific energy
- Quiz 1
- Quiz 1 review
- Lecture 5: Critical depth in non-rectangular sections
- Lecture 6: Example 2.3
- Quiz 2
- Lecture 7: Overbank flow
- Lecture 8: Example 2.4: $Q_U$
- Lecture 9: Example 2.4: Colab Notebook and $Q_L$
- Lecture 10: Example 2.4: Colab Notebook and exercises
- Lecture 11: Weirs
- Lecture 12: Introduction to HEC-RAS
- Homework 5: Your first HEC-RAS model
- Quiz 3
- Midterm exam
- Quiz 3 and midterm exam review
- Lecture 13: Momentum
- Homework 8: Hydraulic jump
- Lecture 14: Dimensionless analysis
- Lecture 15: Surges
- Homework 9: Exercise 3.14
- Lecture 16: Bridge piers
- Lecture 17: Uniform flow
- Lecture 18: Limit slope for a rectangular channel
- Project work
- Lecture 19: Gradually varied flow
- Lecture 20: Direct step method
- Homework 12: Example 5.2
- Quiz 4
- Reservoir routing
- Quiz 5
- Final exam