Instructor: John C. Walton, Ph.D.
Email: walton"at"utep.edu
Teaching Assistant: Sami Al-Haddad, email: saalhaddad@miners.utep.edu
Office Hours: T, R 2-4 PM
Text:
Fundamentals of Hydraulic Engineering Systems (4th Edition)
Robert J. Houghtalen, A. Osman Akan and Ned H. C. Hwang
ISBN: 9780136016380
Description: Hydraulics is a broad area with many sub disciplines. This class will focus on fundamental hydraulic principles as illustrated through laboratory experiments. Rather than attempting to cover the entire field, we will focus in detail surface water hydrology, groundwater hydrology, open channel flow, and flow in pipes. Hydraulics is very much a laboratory oriented course and cannot be properly learned in the absence of a laboratory. Laboratory exercises are featured prominently in the class and grading.
Mastery of fundamental concepts will facilitate the student in learning more detailed hydraulics applications throughout his/her career. Although computer codes are frequently used in engineering practice to perform many of the calculations we will cover, the computer codes change with time whereas the fundamental principles upon which the codes are based do not change. The class will focus on fundamentals rather than cook book solutions.
The class is evolving toward being increasingly online. Links to the online materials are entered on the schedule below. Students are responsible for familiarity with all online exercises. Quantitative problems on tests will be limited to problems similar to homework problems and problems solved in class. Conceptual and fact questions will be drawn from reading and online assignments.
Quarterly Calendar
| Date | Material Covered | Homework (listed by due date) |
| T Aug 24 | Introduction, Class grading and structure. In the 1960's Dr. Hunter Rouse, an expert on fluid mechanics, made a series of videos with physical models made to demonstrate many of the concepts discussed in this class. The videos are excellent and the physical models are much more instructive than the computer simulations prevalent today. I recommend that you watch all of them. The link to the full files is: http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/products/dhrm.html |
Unless otherwise specified homework does not have to be turned in but may be the quiz. Problems are due the class session after we discuss the material. Chapters 1-2 (note: It is assumed that you have already mastered this review material) |
| R Aug 26 | Chapter 3: Water Flow in Pipes How a toilet works youtube video Lecture Notes: Chapter 3 |
Problems: 1.3.1 |
| T Aug 31 | Chapter 3: Water Flow in Pipes Moody Diagram, Minor Losses |
Problems: 3.3.3 (105 ft/s), 3.3.4 (63.4 kN), 3.5.1 (0.011), 3.5.5 10.1 m), 3.5.8 (13.6 cfs) |
| R Sept 2 | Chapter 4: Pipelines and Pipe Networks |
Problems: 3.5.14 (2.82%), 3.11.6, 3.11.8 |
| T Sept 7 | Chapter 4: Pipelines and Pipe Networks |
Problems: 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.5 (786 m), 4.1.9 (3.75 cfs, 429%) |
| R Sept 9 | Chapter 5: Water Pumps Lecture Notes http://www.rainforrent.com/Training/PumpTraining.pdf |
Problems: 4.2.1 (-6.1 m is pressure head), 4.2.6 (72 m), 4.2.7 (56 m), 4.6.1 |
| T Sept 14 | Chapter 6: Open Channel Flow Lecture Notes | Problems: 5.1.1 (62.3 kW), 5.11.4 |
| R Sept 16 | Chapter 6: Open Channel Flow http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=04124000&agency_cd=USGS (go over diurnal trends) Sections: 6.1 - 6.7 |
6.2.1 (0.030), 6.2.3 (22.8), 6.4.1 (0.233, 1.37 m) |
| T Sept 21 | Chapter 6: Open Channel Flow |
6.4.2 (2.9 m), 6.4.8 (yc=1.96m, yn=3.64 m)
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| R Sept 23 | Chapter 6: Open Channel Flow
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6.5.1, 6.8.1, 6.9.1
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| T Sept 28 | Chapter 6: Open Channel Flow | 9.1.1, 9.2.1 |
| R Sept 30 |
Chapter 9: Water Measurements; Broad-crested weir |
9.3.1, 9.4.4 |
| T Oct 5 | First Exam exam Exam from 2008 (answers may be wrong) Partial credit will be limited so be sure to check your answers. Extra space is given to show your work and all work must be shown to receive credit. All books and backpacks must be left at the front or back of the room. Only a one page cheat sheet, calculator, textbook, Walton Supplements (A, B), and pencils are allowed.
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| R Oct 7 | Low Impact Design - rainwater harvesting Low Impact Development UFC
3-210-10 |
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| T Oct 12 | Chapter 8: Hydraulic Structures Sections: 8.5 - 8.10 |
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| R Oct 14 | Chapter 11: Surface Water Hydrology Walton Notes Read all of Chapter 11 | 11.1.4 (leaks 13.7 gal/day), 11.1.5, 11.1.7, 11.2.1 |
| T Oct 19 | Chapter 11: Surface Water Hydrology San Francisco River Flooding |
11.4.1, 11.4.2, 11.5.1 |
| R Oct 21 | Chapter 11: Surface Water Hydrology | 11.5.2, 11.6.1 |
| T Oct 26 | Chapter 11, 12: Surface Water Hydrology; Read all of chapter 12; 12.4 and 12.7 are most important. | 11.6.3, 12.4.1, 12.4.3 |
| R Oct 28 | Chapter 11, 12: Surface Water Hydrology (cover Binomial Probabilities and accepted risk) |
11.8.1, 11.8.3 |
| T Nov 2 | Chapter 11: Surface Water Hydrology |
11.8.7 |
| R Nov 4 | Second Exam Exam Key from 2007 - Answers not Checked |
Same rules as last time: two page cheat sheet in your own writing and not a copy of anyone else's; Walton notes A, B, C; and the textbook. |
| T Nov 9 | Chapter 7: Ground Water Hydrology Walton Notes | |
| R Nov 11 | Chapter 7: Ground Water Hydrology |
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| T Nov 16 |
Chapter 7: Ground Water Hydrology |
Pictures of Aquifers: What do aquifers look like? Problems: 7.1.1, 7.1.5, 7.1.7
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| R Nov 18 | Chapter 7: Ground Water Hydrology |
Problems: 7.1.9, 7.2.1, 7.2.3, 7.2.5 |
| T Nov 23 | Chapter 7: Ground Water Hydrology | Problems: 7.2.7, 7.2.11, 7.4.1, 7.4.5, 7.5.3, 7.5.5
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| R Nov 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| T November 30 | Chapter 7: Ground Water Hydrology | |
| R Dec 2 | Review for Final Exam 2007 Final Exam | |
| R Dec 9, 2010 | Final Exam: 10 AM - 12:45 PM |
Laboratory 15%, 3 exams (3 × 25%), quiz/homework 10%. Laboratory grade includes attendance, active participation, and lab reports. Open book portions of tests allow one page of notes (both sides). Closed book portions allow one page of notes. If a test is missed the final exam will serve as the makeup exam. Grade on the final exam will be used to replace the lowest prior exam score. The times on the syllabus will change during the semester depending upon where we are in class. However the test dates will not change. The student should clear test dates from work and other schedules in advance.
Examinations: During examinations all books, mobile phones, and notes are to be left along the wall at the front of the room. Only the allowed calculators, a one page 8.5x11 inch cheat sheet (one side), and the textbook with no inserts are allowed.
Allowed Calculators
The following will be the only calculators allowed in exams:
These are the same calculators that are currently being allowed in the Fundamental of Engineering (FE) and Professional Engineering (PE) exams (http://www.ncees.org/exams/calculators/). It is your responsibility to get acquainted with the features of the calculator you decide to use. I recommend that you use this calculator for all your work (including other courses) since this will help you learn how to use all the features of your calculator
Absence from laboratory exercises must be approved in advance. Anyone retaking the class can accept last year's laboratory grade or retake the lab.
Internet Sites:
http://water.usgs.gov/realtime.html
http://water.usgs.gov/nwis/discharge
Flow data for streams in the US
http://water.usgs.gov/nsip/nsipnationalmap.html
http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/GWRP.html
USGS Ground Water Information
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/atlasmap.html
USGS Maps
http://water.usgs.gov/nrp/gwsoftware/
Ground Water Software
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/
Climate data.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/rcc.html
http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/hydraulics_lab/pubs/wmm/ Open Channel Flow Measurement
Publication 58 on Flow Measurement
Other Links:
http://www.noaa.gov/
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
http://www.globe.gov/
http://www.weather.com/
http://water.usgs.gov/public/realtim.html
http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/
Runoff Calculations
Learning Methods:
Effects of interleaved practice
Spacing of learning
Class will consist of a) generally brief lectures, b) solution of problems, and c) students working in groups on assigned exercises.
Quizzes: Quizzes will consist of: a) handing in assigned homework problems, b) working problems nearly identical to assigned homework, c) turning in class exercises, d) assigned homework
One page of notes both sides, hand written allowed for entire test. Test part open book, part closed book. Solved problems are not allowed to be brought to the test unless they fit on your cheat sheet. Here is the 2007 final exam: Key to Final Exam . Note that the old tests are from a different book. Also the answers given with some tests are now always correct (e.g., sometimes we change the problem statement in class for clarification and that changes the answer, sometimes the TA catches an error in the key). Students will be responsible for tghe meaning of all italicized words in the text.
Approved calculators:
NCEES has approved the following list of calculators for use in the April and October 2010 exam administrations:
Graduate Students taking Undergraduate Class for Graduate Credit
Graduate students taking Hydraulic Engineering for graduate credit must prepare and deliver a class session including an enhanced mini-lecture and an interactive cooperative classroom exercise. This session will be reviewed and approved by the instructor in advance.
Students are expected to be above reproach in all scholastic activities. Students who engage in scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course and dismissal from the university. "Scholastic dishonesty included but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts." Regents' Rules and regulations, Part One, Chapter VI, Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22. Since, scholastic dishonesty harms the individual, all students, and the integrity of the university, policies on scholastic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. In short, cheating will not be tolerated.
Water forces:
a) Momentum changes on pipes
b) Buoyancy
c) Surface tension/ capillary rise
d) Review of viscosity and shear stress
a) Set up the energy equation and solve it for unknown variables
b) Understand fundamentals of laminar and turbulent flow
c) Estimate friction losses
d) Understand energy and hydraulic grade lines
e) Basic concepts of pump behavior
a) Estimate flows using Manning Equation
b) Shear stress limits on channel design
c) Froude number and specific energy relationships
d) Hydraulic jump prediction
e) Flow measurement
a) Darcy's Law
b) Energy relationships in groundwater flow
c) Flow patterns in different groundwater systems
d) Finite difference solution of groundwater flow equations
e) Water balance
f) Contaminant transport
g) Qualitative concepts of unsaturated flow
h) Simplified flow and transport analysis
a) Hydrologic cycle
b) Methods for estimating peak discharge
c) Return periods and statistics
d) Intensity, Duration, Frequency Curves
d) Hydraulic Design methods
