4th Sem, CIVIL

Applied Hydraulics Civil 4th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme

Applied Hydraulics detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CV43), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other civil 4th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Civil 4th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for applied hydraulics is as follows.

Course Objectives:

The objectives of this course is to make students to learn:

  1. Principles of dimensional analysis to design hydraulic models and Design of various models.
  2. Design the open channels of various cross sections including design of economical sections.
  3. Energy concepts of fluid in open channel, Energy dissipation, Water surface profiles at different conditions.
  4. The working principles of the hydraulic machines for the given data and analyzing the performance of Turbines for various design data.

Module 1

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Module 2

Open Channel Flow Hydraulics:
Uniform Flow: Introduction, Classification of flow through channels, Chezy’s and Manning’s equation for flow through open channel, Most economical channel sections, Uniform flow through Open channels, Numerical Problems. Specific Energy and Specific energy curve, Critical flow and corresponding critical parameters, Metering flumes, Numerical Problems

Module 3

Non-Uniform Flow: Hydraulic Jump, Expressions for conjugate depths and Energy
loss, Numerical Problems Gradually varied flow, Equation, Back water curve and afflux, Description of water curves or profiles, Mild, steep, critical, horizontal and adverse slope profiles, Numerical problems, Control sections

Module 4

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Module 5

Reaction Turbines and Pumps: Radial flow reaction turbines:

  1. Francis turbineDescriptions, working proportions and design, Numerical problems.
  2. Kaplan turbine- Descriptions, working proportions and design, Numerical problems. Draft tube theory and unit quantities. (No problems)

Centrifugal pumps: Components and Working of centrifugal pumps, Types of centrifugal pumps, Work done by the impeller, Heads and Efficiencies, Minimum starting speed of centrifugal pump, Numerical problems, Multi-stage pumps.

Course Outcomes:

After a successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

  1. Apply dimensional analysis to develop mathematical modeling and compute the parametric values in prototype by analyzing the corresponding model parameters
  2. Design the open channels of various cross sections including economical channel sections
  3. Apply Energy concepts to flow in open channel sections, Calculate Energy dissipation,
  4. Compute water surface profiles at different conditions
  5. Design turbines for the given data, and to know their operation characteristics under different operating conditions

Text Books:

  1. P N Modi and S M Seth, Hydraulics and Fluid Mechan ics, including Hydraulic Machines, 20th edition, 2015, Standard Book House, New Delhi
  2. R.K. Bansal, A Text book of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, Laxmi Publications, New Delhi
  3. S K SOM and G Biswas, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines, Tata McGraw Hill,New Delhi
  4. K Subramanya, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd.
  5. Mohd. Kaleem Khan, Fluid Mechanics and Machinery, Oxford University Press
  6. C.S.P. Ojha, R. Berndtsson, and P.N. Chandramouli, Fluid Mechanics and Machinery, Oxford University Publication – 2010
  7. J.B. Evett, and C. Liu, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics , McGraw-Hill Book Company.-2009.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Civil, 2017 scheme do visit Civil 4th Sem syllabus for 2017 scheme.

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