Hydraulics 1 for EET EENG 7715

• Solve hydrostatic problems involving plane surfaces.
• Explain the fundamental terminology and units of measurement in hydraulics.
• Calculate the pressure at any point in a body of liquid.
• Determine and draw the pressure diagram on any submerged plane surface of regular geometric shape.
• Calculate the total hydrostatic force on any submerged plane surface of regular geometric shape.
• Locate the center of pressure on any submerged plane surface of regular geometric shape.
• Solve buoyancy problems involving single objects and simple compound structures.
• Apply fundamentals of flow to the solution of water balance problems.
• Explain the fundamental relationships between velocity, flow rate, area, volume and time.
• Use the principles of continuity, incompressibility and other flow fundamentals to solve for unknown velocities, storage changes and flows in various water balance problems.
• Use Bernoulli's equation and the concept of total energy to solve single-pipe flow problems.
• Explain the three forms of hydraulic energy.
• Calculate the total energy at any point in a flowing liquid.
• Use Bernoulli's equation to solve for unknown pressure, flow rate or velocity in single-pipe flow problems.
• Solve single-pipe flow problems involving pipe friction losses.
• Explain the qualitative relationship between energy loss, liquid characteristics and pipe properties.
• Calculate pipe friction losses using the Hazen-Williams, Manning and Darcy-Weisbach equations.
• Solve single-pipe flow problems with unknown flow rate or diameter, including the effect of pipe friction losses.
• Solve single-pipe flow problems involving local losses.
• Determine local loss coefficients for pipe contraction, enlargement and various pipe fittings.
• Calculate local energy losses at various pipe fittings.
• Solve single-pipe flow problems involving unknown flow rate or diameter, including the effect of both local losses and pipe friction losses.

Effective as of Fall 2003