3. Basic Water Resources Engineering

3. Basic Water Resources Engineering

3.1 Fluids and Their Properties

• Fluid Properties: Mass Density, Specific Weight, Specific Gravity, Specific Volume, Viscosity, Compressibility, Capillarity, Surface Tension, Cavitation, Vapour Pressure

3.2 Hydrostatics

• Pressure and Head

• Pascal’s Law

• Pressure-Depth Relationship

• Manometers

• Pressure Force and Center of Pressure on Submerged Bodies: Plane and Curved Surfaces, Practical Applications

• Pressure Diagrams

• Buoyancy

• Stability of Floating/Submerged Bodies

3.3 Hydro-kinematics and Hydro-dynamics

• Classification of Fluid Flow

• Conservation of Mass: Continuity Equation and Applications

• Conservation of Momentum: Equations and Applications

• Bernoulli’s Equation and Applications

• Flow Measurement

3.4 Pipe Flow

• Types, Governing Equations

• Major and Minor Head Losses

• HGL and TEL Lines

• Design

• Pipe Network Problems

• Unsteady Flow in Pipes and Relief Devices

3.5 Open Channel Flow

• Geometrical Properties

• Various Types of Flows

• Energy and Momentum Principles: Specific Energy, Specific Force

• Types of Gradually Varied Flow Profiles

• Hydraulic Jump: Types, Theory for Horizontal and Rectangular

• Flow in Mobile Boundary Channel: Design Principles/Approaches, Inception Motion Condition, Shield Diagram

3.6 Hydrology

• Hydrologic Cycle and Water Balance Components

• Flow Measurement and Rating Curves

• Hydrograph Analysis and Synthetic Unit Hydrographs

• Rainfall-Runoff Analysis

• Flood Hydrology: Flood Frequency Analysis, Design Flood

• Groundwater Hydrology