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