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Water Engineering - CVEN3527
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: CVEN2525.
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The course develops and expands knowledge in hydraulics and hydrology and their application in water engineering. Topics include: open channel flow - specific energy, specific momentum and force, Manning and Chezy equations, uniform flow, subcritical and supercritical flow, hydraulic jumps, gradually varied flow profiles, sediment characteristics, Shields diagram, beform, sediment stability, channel side slopes, suspended sediment, fluvial sediment transport capacity estimators, groundwater, hydraulic conductiviity, Darcy's Law, intrinsic permeability, water potential, hydraulic head, unsaturated zone, aquifers, aquicludes, aquitards, steady state flow, transient flow, effective stress, transmissivity, storativity.

Assumed Knowledge: CVEN3526.

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