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| GCIV2034-1 | Applied hydraulics
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Michel Pirotton |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | This course is in the continuity of the lectures in Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics given to the civil engineer students. From the Navier Stokes equations, it uses the free surface properties to set a single mathematical formalism applicable to continuous and discontinuous flows encounter on the rain drop trip which touches the ground surface and get to the see through the hydrographic network.
The course tackled notably the notions of hydrology, empirical and modern friction laws, critical and uniform water depths, shape and calculation of backwater curves, energy, hydraulic jump and generalized calculation of the flows over any type of weir, everything for man-made and natural cross sections.
It gives thus the whole of the elements useful to compute the flows over hydraulic structures and the related solicitations. |
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| Course objective : | The main goals of the course are to adequately apply to free surface hydraulics the principles studied in the lectures of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics and to tackle in a single and critical way the notions of hydrology and of free surface hydrodynamics, avoiding the traditional separation between continuous and discontinuous flows.
In addition to the ex cathedra lectures giving the theory and the essential basic equations, these goals are met through guided practical reflection works, based on real cases, as well as through laboratory and on site visits.
An attractive and exhaustive course support judiciously completes the informations given to the students. |
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| Prerequisites : | Basic notions in fluid mechanics |
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| Workshops : | Guided exercises leading to the handling in an individual report at the end of the daily session or at the end of several thematic sessions. Oral presentations of their results will be done by the students. |
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| Organization : | The course is made of sessions with a theoretical ex cathedra lecture and a practical session consisting in a guided exercise and the redaction of an individual report at the end of the session or after several thematic sessions. In the latter case, students will be invited to summarize orally the problem to be solved, their results and conclusions. |
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| Written notes : | Complete typed out notes are available |
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| Assessment : | Handling in practical works reports is obligatory and leads to an individual mark.
A non exempting examination is organized on the theoretical and practical matters related to the continuous flows.
A written examination is organized for the whole of the course during the January or September examination period. It counts for a theoretical and exercises parts.
The theoretical examinations are organized without any support while the practical examinations can be solved using the course support.
The final mark results from a balance between the partial marks. |
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| Contacts : | Professeur Michel Pirotton
Hydrologie, Hydrodynamique Appliquée et Constructions Hydrauliques (HACH)
Institut de Mécanique et de Génie Civil, Bât. B52/3
Chemin des Chevreuils, 1
B-4000 Liège
Tél. : 04/366.95.36
email: Michel.Pirotton@ulg.ac.be
http://www.hach.ulg.ac.be (http://www.hach.ulg.ac.be/) |
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