302791 (v.2) Water Engineering 361

Area:	Department of Civil Engineering
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	3.5
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	2 x 2 Hours Once-only
Prerequisite(s):	308807 (v.1) Fluid Mechanics 230 or any previous version OR 302781 (v.1) Water Engineering 261 or any previous version OR 302786 (v.1) Water Engineering 262 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Part 1 - positive displacement pumps and rotodynamic pumps. Pumping system, pump performance. Economics of pumping. Impulse turbine and reaction turbines. Hydraulic modelling and similitude. Dimensional analysis. Part 2 - open channel flow, its classification and properties. Energy and momentum principles. Critical flow and uniform flow. Design of channels. Gradually varied flow, theory and computation. Rapidly varied flow. Hydraulic jump and its use as energy dissipater. Introduction to unsteady flow.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	030907 Water and Sanitary Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Supplemental *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2008	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External