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S04 – Hydraulic design principles

Course subject(s) S04 – Hydraulic design principles

In this lecture, PhD researcher Ivo Pothof presents the hydraulics of flow in sewer channels and pipes, as well as the hydraulics of pumped pipeline systems.
First the hydraulic principles of staedy flow are explained, including hydraulic radius, wall shear stress, White-Colebrook friction factor, and partly filled pipes. Therafter the hydraulic principles of a pump-pipeline system is explained, including static head, dynamic head, pipe system characteristics and pump characteristics.
The latter part of the lectures includes exercises for calculations on flow in a rectangular channel, drawing a system line, and determining the duty point in a pump-pipe system.

Hydraulic design principles

Content

Slides

Video
Intro
Uniform flow / Hydraulic radius
Wall shear stress / White-Colebrook
Part-full flow
Design principles / Pumping stations
System characteristics
Pump and system characteristics (part)		 1 –   2
3 –   5
6 –   8
9 – 13
14 – 15
16 – 18
19		 00:00
03:23
15:19
24:20
28:55
35:44
45:18
Pump and system characteristics (cont.)
Exercises: Flow / System line / Pump system		 20 – 25
26 – 34		 56:33
62:41
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