Course detail

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with principles of hydraulics of open channels. The students will obtain knowledge about nonuniform steady flow and unsteady flow, about transport and dispersion of conservative component in rivers and about transport of sediment.

Students complete goal of this course which include getting up principles of flow in the open channels. Also students get experience in flow in the open channels through term projects.

Mathematics, Physics, Hydraulics, Hydrology

Solution of the open channel hydraulics problems (uniform and nonuniform steady flow, unsteady flow, stability of the bottom and banks of the channel, pollution propagation), solution using nowadays software of open channel flow and advection-dispersion (HEC-RAS, MIKE11).
Software application, demonstration of case studies.
Hydraulic solution of the structures appearing on channels (bed drops, weirs, bridges, culverts).

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Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

1. Introduction, purposes of modelling
2. Types of flow (uniform, nonuniform, steady flow, unsteady flow)
3.-4. Mathematical formulation of 1D flow problem
5.-6. Mathematical formulation of sediment transport and bed stability
7. Mathematical formulation of advection and dispersion
8. Numerical solution
9.-10.Structures on streams (bridges, culverts)
11. Structures on streams (drops, weirs)
12. Protection walls (stability, safety)
13. Pollution transport in the river network

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Boor, Kunštátský, Patočka: Hydraulika pro vodohospodářské stavby. SNTL Praha 1968
Havlík, Ingeduld, Vaněček, Zeman: Matematické modelování neustáleného proudění. ČVUT Praha 1992
Chow, Ven Te: Open-channel hydraulics. McGraw-Hill 1959
Říha a kol.: Matematické modelování hydrodynamických a disperzních jevů. PCDIR Brno 1997
Subhash C.Jain: Open - Chanel Flow. John Wiley and Sons,Inc. 2001