HYDRAULICS

CE 123
HYDRAULICS
• DERIVATION: Greek word Hudour (water)

• DEFINITION: science that deals with the mechanical behavior of

water at rest or in motion

• SCIENCE OF WATER: encompasses Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics &

Hydrology
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• DISTINCTION AMONG FLUID MECH, HYDRAULICS & HYDROLOGY:

Fluid Mechanics
– study of fluids under all conditions of rest & motion
– employs basic principles of science (physics); mathematical rather than empirical
Hydraulics
– deals primarily with water
– employs empirical approach and finds solution of practical value;
– applied fluid mechanics
Hydrology
– study of space, time, and frequency characteristics of the
quantity and quality of waters of the earth
– encompasses the water’s occurrence, movement, distribution,
circulation, storage, exploration & dev’t
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• CLASSIFICATION OF HYDRAULIC PROBLEM:
INPUT HYDRAULIC SYSTEM OUTPUT PROBLEM

Unknown Known Known Detection/

Instrumentation
Known Known Unknown Prediction

Known Known Unknown Forecasting

Known Unknown Known Identification

Known Unknown Unknown Simulation/

Modeling
HYDRAULICS ENGINEERING
• Hoop Tension (circular pipes and tanks)
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• Flow Through an Orifice
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• Analysis of Dams
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• Buoyancy and Stability of Floating Bodies
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• Fundamentals of Liquid
– discharge or rate of flow, continuity, Bernoulli’s &
energy eqn’s
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• Water Flow
Through
Closed
Conduit
s
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• Open-Channel Flow
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• Weirs
CE 123 TOPICS
• Hydrodynamics
PRE-TEST
PROPERTIES OF FLUID