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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Hydrology and Hydraulics

  • Unit Code

    ENS5106

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit provides students with knowledge of open channel hydraulics and hydrology, leading to an understanding of the scientific foundations and basic principles of these fields, and the ability to apply hydraulic and hydrological methods to engineering applications in an integrated way. Knowledge of fluid mechanics is applied leading to increased problem-solving skills in water resources engineering.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENM5218

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Carry out a water balance analysis.
  2. Carry out flow routing in catchments, reservoirs and rivers.
  3. Design hydraulic structures such as weirs and culverts.
  4. Design normal open channels including estimating water surface profiles.
  5. Estimate design rainfall and surface runoff.
  6. Estimate flow rates for the design of drainage and flood mitigation facilities.
  7. Model hydrological processes, as a basis for modelling other environmental processes such as the transport of pollutants.
  8. Research new developments in unsteady open channel flow.

Unit Content

  1. Conservation of momentum, uniform and non-uniform flow.
  2. Design rainfalls and analysis for engineering design.
  3. Energy principles for open channel flow.
  4. Gradually varied steady flow analysis.
  5. Groundwater hydrology.
  6. Hydraulic structures (e.g. dams, weirs, spillways, gates, diversion headworks).
  7. Hydrological data collection.
  8. Meteorology and climatology and data collection.
  9. Rainfall-runoff processes, flood estimation and procedures.
  10. Statistical analysis in hydrology.
  11. The hydrological cycle and water balances.
  12. Unsteady open channel flow and flood routing.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory work and reports15%
TestQuizzes30%
Examination ^End of semester examination55%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Sturm, T.W. (2010). Open channel hydraulics. New York: Mcgraw-Hill.
  • ^ Ladson, A. (2007). Hydrology - an Australian introduction. Australia and New Zealand. Oxford University Press.
  • Patra, K.C. (2007). Hydrology and water resources engineering (2nd ed.). Pangbourne: Alpha Science International.
  • Pilgrim, D.H. (2001). Australian rainfall and runoff: A guide to flood estimation. Australia: Institution of Engineers.
  • Subramanya, K. (2009). Flow in open channels (3rd ed.). New Delhi: Mcgraw-Hill.
  • Chadwick, A.J., Morfett, J., & Borthwick, M. (2004). Hydraulics in civil and environmental engineering (4th ed.). London: Spon Press.
  • Chow, V.T. (1983). Open channel hydraulics (SI ed.). New York: Mcgraw-Hill.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Hydrology and Hydraulics

  • Unit Code

    ENS5106

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit provides students with knowledge of open channel hydraulics and hydrology, leading to an understanding of the scientific foundations and basic principles of these fields, and the ability to apply hydraulic and hydrological methods to engineering applications in an integrated way. Knowledge of fluid mechanics is applied leading to increased problem-solving skills in water resources engineering.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ENM5218

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Carry out a water balance analysis.
  2. Carry out flow routing in catchments, reservoirs and rivers.
  3. Design hydraulic structures such as weirs and culverts.
  4. Design normal open channels including estimating water surface profiles.
  5. Estimate design rainfall and surface runoff.
  6. Estimate flow rates for the design of drainage and flood mitigation facilities.
  7. Model hydrological processes, as a basis for modelling other environmental processes such as the transport of pollutants.
  8. Research new developments in unsteady open channel flow.

Unit Content

  1. Conservation of momentum, uniform and non-uniform flow.
  2. Design rainfalls and analysis for engineering design.
  3. Energy principles for open channel flow.
  4. Gradually varied steady flow analysis.
  5. Groundwater hydrology.
  6. Hydraulic structures (e.g. dams, weirs, spillways, gates, diversion headworks).
  7. Hydrological data collection.
  8. Meteorology and climatology and data collection.
  9. Rainfall-runoff processes, flood estimation and procedures.
  10. Statistical analysis in hydrology.
  11. The hydrological cycle and water balances.
  12. Unsteady open channel flow and flood routing.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory work and reports15%
TestQuizzes30%
Examination ^End of semester examination55%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Text References

  • ^ Ladson, A. (2007). Hydrology - an Australian introduction. Australia and New Zealand. Oxford University Press.
  • ^ Sturm, T.W. (2010). Open channel hydraulics. New York: Mcgraw-Hill.
  • Subramanya, K. (2009). Flow in open channels (3rd ed.). New Delhi: Mcgraw-Hill.
  • Chow, V.T. (1983). Open channel hydraulics (SI ed.). New York: Mcgraw-Hill.
  • Chadwick, A.J., Morfett, J., & Borthwick, M. (2004). Hydraulics in civil and environmental engineering (4th ed.). London: Spon Press.
  • Pilgrim, D.H. (2001). Australian rainfall and runoff: A guide to flood estimation. Australia: Institution of Engineers.
  • Patra, K.C. (2007). Hydrology and water resources engineering (2nd ed.). Pangbourne: Alpha Science International.

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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