Undergraduate Courses and Facilities

The Water Resources Group offers courses in the area of Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, and Hydrology to the students in the Civil Engineering B.Sc. program. Detailed information can be found in the listing provided by the registrar's office. Here is a specific description of the Courses offered by us :

• Civ E 330 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics Fluid Properties, dimensional analysis, hydrostatics, fundamental equations of fluid motion, laminar turbulent and inviscid flows, boundary layer and flow around immersed bodies, elementary building aerodynamics. Prerequisite: MEC E 250, CIV E 398 or Consent of Instructor.
• Civ E 331 Hydraulics Control volume analysis, pumps and turbines, pipe systems, channel systems, similitude and models, introduction to unsteady flow in conduits. Prerequisite: Civ E 330.
• Civ E 333 Hydrology Water occurrence in nature and its relation to civil engineering, analysis of precipitation and streamflow data, precipitation-runoff relationships, groundwater, river behaviour.
• Civ E 531 Environmental Fluid MechanicsTurbulent flow, equations of motion and pollutant conservation equation, slender flows, jets and plumes. Mixing processes in rivers and lakes. Hydraulics of hot water and effluent discharges into water bodies. Oil spills into rivers and ocean. Prerequisite: Civ E 331.
• Civ E 540 Hydraulic Engineering A selection from open channel flows, culverts, spillways and energy dissipators, river hydraulics, river regime, elementary river engineering, models,pump, turbine and pipelines, surge tanks, water hammer. Prerequisite:Civ E 331.

As part of the requirements in the Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics courses the students perform laboratory experiments in the Undergraduate students' Laboratory. This laboratory is a fully equipped facility for the students to perform their individual experiments as well as experiments which are demonstrated to them. The Facility consists of:

• A 5m x 0.5m x 0.75m hydraulic jump flume which is also used for studying flow over weirs
• A 10m x 0.4m x 0.3m flume for studying uniform flows in open channels, the effect of bed roughness and surface profiles.
• A 9m x 1.05m x 0.2m river tray to study river processes
• A 8 pipe friction apparatus which consists of a network of pipes of various dimension and material, valves as well as expansion and contraction. This is used to study friction and minor losses.
• A setup for studying pump characteristics which includes two seven stage deep well turbine pumps, and weighing tank.
• An apparatus for studying air flow through smooth brass pipe
• An apparatus for studying Stoke’s law using falling spheres
• A wind tunnel
• A pelton wheel
• A setup for studying water hammer in a polythene pipe with computer datalogging system

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