AE2609 Hydraulic Engineering Systems 7.5 credits

Embankment and concrete dams: loads, design, function, stability

Spillways: design and hydraulic computations of overflow weirs, bottom outlets and energy dissipators

Transport of water: technical and economical design of tubes and channels, pump- pipeline analysis and design

Hydraulics: unsteady flow, water hammer, surge waves, mass oscillation and pressure transients in pipes – surge shafts

Erosion: Shields diagram, critical shear stress, design of erosion protection

Hydropower plants: design, hydraulic computation, energy production

River regulation for hydropower, water supply and flood mitigation

Wind generated waves: wave mechanics, computation of wave height

After the course you should be able to:

-Describe and explain the design principles of embankment and concrete dams and perform stability computations for some of these dam types

• -Perform hydraulic design of spillways and energy dissipators, channels and
• tubes and technical-economical optimization of pipes and channels
• -Make computations for different types of unsteady flow, such as water - hammer, mass oscillations in pipe systems and surge and flood waves
• - Describe the erosion process and design erosion protection for a channel
• -Describe and explain the design and hydraulic function of a hydroelectric power plant and compute energy production in hydropower plants
• -Make computations for river regulation for for hydropower, water supply and flood mitigation

-Describe the mechanics of wind generated waves and make wave height computations

Documented proficiency in English B or equivalent.

For program students:

AE2608 Engineering Hydrology and Climate or AE1601 Fluid Mechanics for Architecture and Built Environment

For others: 180 credits university studies including at least 35 credits in soil mechanics, structural engineering, hydrology and fluid mechanics.

Course compendium available at the Department.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• TEN1 - Examination, 4.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• ÖVN1 - Assignments, 3.5 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Written examination (TEN1; 4hp), assignments (ÖVN1;3,5 hp)

Anders Wörman

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

From Srping 2013, AE2609 replaced by AE2612