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Course description

This is an introductory level course that builds on the topics covered in the introductory environmental fluid mechanics to provide the fundamental principles that underpin the design and analysis of natural and engineered waterways, such as rivers, water supply canals, dam spillways, weirs, and culverts. Topics include water engineering and the hydrological cycle, hydrological measurement and statistics, design rainfall patterns, temporal patterns and rainfall-runoff models, flow routing and channel routing, introduction to free surface flows, energy and momentum in open channel flow, friction and flow resistance laws, uniform flows in channels and physical modelling of free surface flows. The course includes a set of laboratory practicals, a field trip, and a guest lecture on current industry approaches to modelling free surface flows.

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