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A
reach of the River Rhine north of Karlsruhe, showing
the "improved" straightening – good for ships but not
for Nature
Coastal
erosion, Port Campbell, Australia
Some
Melbourne University students developed a wave
measuring device for our laboratory. To me it looked
more like a rubber duck
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Subject description
The document A First Course
in Hydraulics (1.5MB) contains an
introduction to fluid mechanics in civil and
environmental engineering where sensible and
convenient approximations can be made, resulting in
useful simple theories and methods. Unusually, the
treatment of energy is not based on Bernoulli's
theorem - instead, the simpler and more general
approach of conservation of energy is used. Sections
include:
- The nature and properties of fluids, forces, and
flows
- Hydrostatics
- Fluid kinematics and flux of quantities
- Conservation of mass – the continuity equation
- Conservation of momentum and forces on bodies
- Conservation of energy
- Dimensional analysis and similarity
- Flow in pipes
- Discharge measurement in pipes
- Pressure surges in pipes
- Pumps and turbines
Tutorial 1 - Drag on bodies, Answer Sheet 1
Tutorial 2 - Fluid properties &
pressures in static fluids,
Answer Sheet 2
Tutorial 3- Forces on submerged
surfaces, Answer Sheet 3
Tutorial 4 - Stability of floating
bodies, Answer Sheet 4
Tutorial 5 - Mass conservation and
the continuity equation,
Answer Sheet 5
Tutorial 6 - The momentum theorem,
Answer Sheet 6
Tutorial 7 - Conservation of energy
and Bernoulli's theorem,
Answer Sheet 7
Tutorial 8 - Dimensional analysis
and similitude, Answer Sheet
8
Tutorial 9 - Basic hydraulics of
flow in pipes, Answer Sheet
9
Tutorial 10 - Pipe networks, Answer Sheet 10
Tutorial 11 - Pumps and turbines,
Answer Sheet 11
Staff
Lecturer: Dr John Fenton
Mail: fenton@kw.tuwien.ac.at
Personal homepage: http://johndfenton.com/
Books
A list of
possibly-useful books
Visual resources and books
You might like to look at some photographs of flows
in Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic, and Environmental
Engineering from Dr Hubert Chanson's Gallery
of Photographs
Slides and video materials for fluid
mechanics (German)
Links to various resources in fluid
mechanics and hydraulics (German and English)
Do-it-yourself Laboratory
You might like to play around with a simulated
viscous fluid, to see how it behaves – click
here to download (it is not large) - click the
mouse and stir it around. Unfortunately modern
computers are a bit fast to see much ...
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Water vapour and smoke
plumes, Loy Yang Power Station, Australia
Melbourne Water's Upper
Yarra Dam
Hot air balloon,
Melbourne
Corinth Ship Canal,
Greece – with a ship-wave pattern
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