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In Hydraulic Engineering, you'll learn ...
- Geometric, dynamic and kinematic similarity
- Open channel and closed conduit flow characteristics
- Application of the Darcy-Weisbach equation, Moody curve and the Hazen-Williams equation
- Rapidly varied flow (hydraulic jump) and gradually varied flow (GVF)
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 34 pages
Hydraulic engineering is the application of fluid mechanics principles to problems dealing with the collection, storage, control, transport, regulation, measurement, and use of water.
This course provides step-by-step procedures to help you understand and solve hydraulic problems. The course covers dimensional analysis and hydraulic models, application of continuity and momentum principles to pipe and open channel flow and steady, open-channel flow under uniform, rapidly and gradually varied conditions.
Numerous sample problems are presented and solved to aid in your understanding of the material.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Application of the continuity and energy equations
- Dimensional analysis and how to simplify complex physical problems
- Similitude and how to design and analyze an experimental model that corresponds to specific prototype problems
- Application of continuity and momentum principles and how to apply in hydraulics
- Channel flow design under uniform and rapidly or gradually varied conditions
- How to calculate friction loss in a closed conduit using various methods
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 15 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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The quiz asked questions outside the materials that were provided.
Tough one
Most of the material is not really used in practice
this was a difficult course with the complex equations although the test was fine.
Lot of material to review and the meaning and relationship of fluid and flow equations to remember.
Good subject
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In this course, the author was too heavy on the theoretical and did not do a great job on explaining how to handle dimensional analysis. I came away still not knowing how to do it.
very difficult!!
I found the course a little hard to follow. To be fair, it has been a long time since I dealt with the course material in my career and was hoping for a refresher course.
Good review
Thank you for this course. It refreshes my memory of my favorite subject.
This is an excellent overview of hydraulic engineering.
Needs to be a better presentation of hydraulic data that is more commonly used in the engineering field today. Some misspelled words also.
