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This course covers various aspects of fluid hydraulics with a particular application to drinking water reticulation and supply. Topics include: scale and dimensional Analysis; open channel flow; pipe networks; groundwater and well design.
Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics is the second, and final, compulsory course on fluid mechanics in the undergraduate curriculum for civil engineering students. It follows on from ENCN242, Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, in second year.The course is split into a series of self-contained topics that fall under the broad category of water resource engineering.1. Open channel flow focuses on how water moves through natural rivers and engineered structures like canals.2. Groundwater introduces the aquifer systems where much of our drinking water originates from and the design of groundwater wells.3. Pipe networks considered the flow in pressurised pipes and pipe networks – the types of pipes that deliver drinking water to our homes.4. Dimensional and Scale analysis introduces approaches for dealing with general, more complicated flows like we’re likely to encounter in the real world.The topics are an introduction towards more advanced topics that can be studied in fourth year and beyond. Examples of these later topics include modelling groundwater in underground aquifers (ENCN442), turbulent mixing (ENCN441) and pipe network design (ENCN446).
At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to: LO1: Analyse problems in fluid mechanics using tools of dimensional and scale analysis. (UC: EIE3; WA1) LO2: Analyse transitions, hydraulic jumps, uniform flow and gradually varied flow in steady open channel hydraulics. (UC: EIE3; WA1) LO3: Analyse and design simple pipe networks. (UC: EIE3; WA1) LO4: Apply principles of groundwater well design including material selection, testing and protection procedures. (UC: EIE3; WA1) LO5: Apply fluid mechanics knowledge to culturally significant problems in a New Zealand and Pacific Island context. (UC: BiCC2, BiCC3, BiCC4, BiCC7; WA6)
ENCN242
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Craig McConnochie
Derek Li , David Dempsey and Pedro Lee
Special ConsiderationsAny student who has been impaired by significant exceptional and/or unforeseeable circumstances that have prevented them from completing any major assessment items, or that have impaired their performance such that the results are not representative of their true level of mastery of the course material, may apply for special consideration through the formal university process. The applicability and academic remedy/action associated with the special consideration process is listed for each assessment item below. Please refer to the University Special Consideration Regulations and Special Consideration Policies and Procedures documents for more information on the acceptable grounds for special consideration and the application process. Special Consideration for Tutorials There is an automatic exemption policy allowing students to drop any one tutorial, without notification or penalty. If you’ll be unable to complete more than one tutorial, you should contact the course coordinator to discuss any further exemptions or extensions. Special Consideration for Midterm Test and Final Exam Moderate/Serious/Severe Impact: Students will be offered an equivalent alternative test that will replace their original test mark. This test will be held in week 9 of Semester 2 for the Midterm Test and in the week of 24th – 28th November for the final exam.Note: All communication associated with the arrangement of equivalent alternative tests/exams will be conducted using official UC email accounts. The offer to sit an alternative assessment will come with a list of potential dates/times. Students will have a clearly specified amount of time to respond to the offer to sit the alternative assessment and accept one of the listed dates/times. If the offer is declined or no response is received in the specified time frame, the original assessment mark will be used to compute the course grade.
Electronic copies of course materials will be made available through Learn.Note that all lecture recordings, made available through LEARN, are copyright and are not for public dissemination.
AI UsageOur expectation is that you do not use AI for assessment in this course. If you do, you are largely cheating yourself and are unlikely to perform as well on invigilated assessment. If you do use AI, we recommend using it to enhance your learning, rather than completing the work. For example, if you have been struggling with a tutorial problem for 20 minutes, try describing the problem, your thinking so far, what you find confusing, and then ask for some hints or tips.
1. All assignments must be submitted by the due date. Late submissions will not be accepted. If you are unable to complete and submit an assignment by the deadline due to personal circumstances beyond your control, you should discuss this with the lecturer as soon as possible.2. Poorly presented material will be given 0 marks.3. The mid-semester test will cover material taught in weeks 1-6 and the final exam will cover material taught in weeks 7-12.4. The use of generative AI, like ChatGPT, is generally prohibited and considered to be academic dishonesty unless there is clear permission granted by the lecturer for a particular assessment item
Domestic fee $1,190.00
International fee $6,488.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Civil and Environmental Engineering .