Civil / PE Exam

Open Channel Hydraulics Course Syllabus

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1. Course Overview

  • Analysis and characteristics of flow in open channels (natural and artificial)
  • Channel design considerations including uniform flow (rivers, sewers)
  • Flow measuring devices (weirs, flumes)
  • Gradually varied flow (backwater and other flow profiles, flood routing)
  • Rapidly varied flow (hydraulic jump, spillways)
  • Channel design problems (geometric considerations, scour, channel stabilization, sediment transport)

2. Textbooks (latest editions recommended)

  • Chow, V.T. Open-Channel Hydraulics
  • Heubart Chanson. The hydraulics of open channel flow