ENCN242-11S2 (C) Semester Two 2011

Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 July 2011
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 24 July 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 October 2011

Description

Fluid Properties. Hydrostatics. Mass, energy and momentum fluxes. Applications to hydraulic systems. Water resources and global climates. Stream and groundwater flow.

Learning Outcomes

  • Appreciate the roles of fluid mechanics and hydrology in Civil and Natural Resources Engineering.
  • Understand fluid properties and their importance to modelling fluid behaviour.
  • Model (and hence predict) the impact of stationary fluids on associated boundaries and extend these concepts to deal with issues of object stability (under submerged and floating conditions), and in addition model fluid bodies subject to accelerations.
  • Qualitatively describe fluid flow phenomena in such a way that assumptions, which aid the modelling of flow behaviour, become obvious.
  • Apply the conservation laws (mass, momentum and energy) to model fluid flows; making effective use of control volumes and the integral forms of these laws.
  • Employ conservation laws to model hydraulic systems.
  • Use historical flood flow data and/or rainfall data to estimate the design flood flow for a catchment of known physical properties.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry

Restrictions

ENCI241

Course Coordinator

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignments and Tutorials 5%
final test 100%
Laboratories/Field Trip 5%
Design Project 10%
Mid Semester test 20%
Test 1 40%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $747.00

International fee $3,975.00

* 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 Natural Resources Engineering .

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