HYDRAULICS COMPLEMENTS
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Giuseppe PEZZINGAExpected Learning Outcomes
Achievement of knowledge of mathematical models in Hydraulics and their applications to schematic cases of problems of fluid flow in water engineering, with attention to fundamental hypotheses and computational approximations.
Course Structure
Lessons and classroom exercises.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Steady flow in pressure pipe networks – Sizing of pressure pipe networks – Steady free surface flow – Unsteady pressure pipe flow - Unsteady free surface flow – Groundwater flow – Sediment transport
Textbook Information
1. Montuori C., Complementi di idraulica, CUEN, Napoli.
2. Pezzinga G., Elementi di idraulica numerica, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università di Catania.
3. Citrini D., Noseda G., Idraulica, CEA, Milano.
4. Marchi E., Rubatta, A., Meccanica dei fluidi, UTET, Torino
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | INTRODUCTION | Text 2 |
2 | UNIFORM FLOW IN PRESSURE PIPES AND OPEN CHANNELS | Text 1 |
3 | STEADY FLOW IN PRESSURE PIPE NETWORKS | Text 2, Text 3 |
4 | SIZING OF PRESSURE PIPE NETWORKS | Text 2, Text 3 |
5 | STEADY FREE SURFACE FLOW | Text 1, Text 2, Text 3 |
6 | UNSTEADY PRESSURE PIPE FLOW | Text 2, Text 3 |
7 | UNSTEADY FREE SURFACE PIPE FLOW | Text 1, Text 2 |
8 | GROUNDWATER FLOW | Text 2, Text 3 |
9 | SEDIMENT TRANSPORT | Text 4 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Evaluation of the exercises.
Oral exam.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Hardy Cross method.
Matrix of conductivity.
Pipe networks sizing.
Lateral weir.
Unsteady pressure pipe flow.
Unsteady free surface flow.
Flow in porous media.
Incipient motion.