Hydraulics
Undergraduate · Engineering
Syllabus focus
Standard syllabus · STEM / applied
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Topics typically covered
Standard syllabus
Closed conduit flow
- Continuity and energy principles for pipe flow
- Major losses: Darcy-Weisbach and Hazen-Williams
- Minor losses and equivalent length method
- Pipe networks: Hardy Cross method (intro)
- Pumps in series and parallel configurations
- Cavitation and net positive suction head (NPSH)
- Transient flow: water hammer concepts
- Pipe materials, aging, and roughness changes
- Valve selection and throttling behavior
- Surge tanks and air chambers for protection
Open-channel flow
- Uniform flow and Manning's equation
- Hydraulic radius and channel geometry
- Specific energy and critical depth
- Froude number and flow regimes
- Hydraulic jump and energy dissipation
- Gradually varied flow profiles (qualitative)
- Weirs and flumes for flow measurement
- Sediment transport intro for channels
- Flood routing and storage routing (overview)
- Dam spillway hydraulics (survey)
STEM / applied
Water resources and design
- Watershed hydrology and rainfall-runoff intro
- Rational method for peak discharge estimation
- Reservoir storage and yield analysis
- Urban stormwater management and detention
- Irrigation canal design basics
- Hydraulic structures: gates and energy dissipators
- Groundwater wells and pumping (intro)
- Environmental flows and habitat maintenance
- HEC-RAS or similar modeling tools (lab intro)
- Capstone: design a culvert or channel reach
Infrastructure and practice
- Levee and floodwall design awareness
- Bridge hydraulics and scour
- Coastal engineering wave basics (overview)
- Hydropower penstock and turbine selection
- Municipal water distribution system hydraulics
- Fire flow requirements in water mains
- Field surveying tie-in for hydraulic grades
- Climate change effects on design storms
- FE civil hydraulics topic drills
- Professional ethics in flood hazard mapping
Notes
Topics reflect common engineering syllabi at US colleges and universities. Exact order, depth, and applied emphasis vary by institution, department, and instructor.