CVG 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Turbulence, Newtonian Fluid, Reynolds Number

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Civil Engineering
• Course: CVG 3116
• Professor: Jose Sanchez

Document Summary

Hydraulic engineering is the application of fluid and particle mechanics to problems involving the transport, storage, and use of fluids (generally water). There are two broad categories of hydraulic engineering: pipe flows, and open channel flows. The primary variables of concern for pipe flows are velocity and pressure. For open channel flows, velocity and depth are usually the primary variables. Pipe flow problems include the design of water and wastewater distribution systems. Open channel flow problems include river regulation (or naturalization) and bank stabilization, design of dams or other hydraulic structures, scour at bridge piers, and aquatic habitat enhancement. Hydraulic engineers also sometimes deal with currents and waves in lakes or oceans, but this course will not consider these flows. Hydraulic engineering problems are often conceptualized in a cartesian coordinate system, with the x-axis in the streamwise direction. There is no universal convention for the vertical component: some authors use y for vertical and some use z for vertical.