Current course offerings

Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.

Course description

This course will be offered from Semester 1, 2023. This course aims to develop a sound understanding of the environmental hydraulics, flood management and hydraulic design of civil engineering structures in a natural and built environment. Fundamental fluid mechanic principles are applied to professional water engineering problems. This course forms part of a major, which provides students with the skills to work in the water and environment sector of a Civil and Environmental Engineering profession. The course is a professional subject in which the students learn how to apply fundamental principles to practical situations. The design of a civil engineering structure in a floodplain is based on a system approach. The structure must be analysed as part of the surrounding catchment and the hydrology plays an important role. Structural and hydraulic constraints interact, and the design of a hydraulic structure is a complex exercise altogether. First, the system must be identified. What are the design objectives? what are the constraints? What is the range of options? What is the 'best choice'? Its detailed analysis must be conducted and the engineers should ask: Is this solution really satisfactory? During design stages, physical and computational models may be reliable 'tools' to compare the performances of various design options, including under flood scenarios. After completion of the course, each student will know how to apply the fundamental fluid mechanics principles to flood modelling in professional designs and they will be familiar with the multi-disciplinary aspects of an engineering project.

Archived offerings