Open Channel Flow - MZ330P102

• Title: Open Channel Flow
• Guaranteed by: Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology (31-330)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2013 to 2019
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. Richard Crago, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Kliment, CSc. (14.05.2012)

This course is geared toward Masters and doctoral students studying physical geography and geoecology. The class will be taught in English. This course develops the physical concepts and mathematical equations governing flow in rivers, streams, canals, and hydraulic structures such as spillways. Lectures introduce new material, and in-class exercises give students a more in-depth knowledge of the material. To help students become immersed in the research literature, students write reviews of journal papers related to open channel flow. Topics covered include: Bernoulli’s equation, hydrostatics, the energy equation, specific energy, gradually varied flow, rapidly varied flow, water surface profile modeling, and sediment transport.

Literature

Last update: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Kliment, CSc. (14.05.2012)

No required text. Akan (2006, Open Channel Hydraulics, Butterworth-Heinemann, 364 pp.) will be the primary reference.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Kliment, CSc. (14.05.2012)

1. Introduction and motivation

2. Basic concepts: hydrostatic pressure and Bernoulli

3. Conservation of mass and energy

4. Energy equation for steady flow

5. Specific energy and critical depth

6. Changes in bed elevation and width

7. Gradually-varying flow profiles--qualitative

8. Gradually-varying flow profiles--numerical

9. HEC-RAS

10. Rapidly varying flow

11. Energy dissipation structures

12. Sediment transport processes

13. Sediment transport calculations