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Open Channel Hydraulics

Course Code	: MCE531
Course Type	: Area Elective
Couse Group	: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language	: English
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 3
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 3
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 8

Objectives of the Course

The fundamentals of open channel hydraulics and effects of the different hydraulic structures on open channels

Course Content

Advanced hydraulics of free surface flow in rivers and open channels; discussion of theory, analytical and numerical solution techniques, and their applications to gradually and rapidly varied nonuniform flows, unsteady flow, and flow in open-channel networks.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Ayşe YÜKSEL OZAN

Learning Outcomes

1.	Students will learn steady uniform flow
2.	Students will learn gradually varied flow
3.	Students will learn rapidly varied flow
4.	Students will learn weirs and spillways
5.	Students will learn unsteady gradually and rapidly varied flow

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Hydraulic Structures, P. Novak et. al, 2001
2.	The hydraulics of open channel flow: an introduction, Chanson H., Oxford, UK. 2nd ed
3.	Environmental Hydraulics of Open Channel Flows, Chanson, H., Elsevier

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Hydraulics of Steady open-channel flows

Week 2 - Theoretical

Steady uniform flow: Chezy and Manning equations, optimal trapezoidal section, compound and heterogeneous channels, normal depth calculation in channels and sewers.

Week 3 - Theoretical

Gradually varied flows: specific energy, critical depth, critical slope, flow profiles (theory and practical calculations).

Week 4 - Theoretical

Gradually varied flows: specific energy, critical depth, critical slope, flow profiles (theory and practical calculations).

Week 5 - Theoretical

Flow in natural rivers: pseudouniform flow. Rapidly varied flow: hydraulic jump, drawn jump.

Week 6 - Theoretical

Flow in natural rivers: pseudouniform flow. Rapidly varied flow: hydraulic jump, drawn jump.

Week 7 - Theoretical

Flow in non-prismatic geometry: flow between a gate and a reservoir, change in bed slope, change in channel width, presence of bridge piers, Venturi flumes, bottom sill, broad crested weir.

Week 8 - Theoretical

Flow in non-prismatic geometry: flow between a gate and a reservoir, change in bed slope, change in channel width, presence of bridge piers, Venturi flumes, bottom sill, broad crested weir.

Week 9 - Theoretical

Weirs and spillways, Thin crested weir, normalized Creager profile, free or drawn outflow, spillways

Week 10 - Theoretical

Weirs and spillways, Thin crested weir, normalized Creager profile, free or drawn outflow, spillways

Week 11 - Theoretical

Unsteady gradually varied flow

Week 12 - Theoretical

Unsteady gradually varied flow

Week 13 - Theoretical

Unsteady rapidly varied flow

Week 14 - Theoretical

Unsteady rapidly varied flow

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%30
Final Examination	1	%40
Quiz	3	%15
Assignment	2	%15

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	0	3	42
Assignment	2	45	1	92
Midterm Examination	3	10	1	33
Final Examination	1	31	2	33
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PÇ-1	PÇ-2	PÇ-3	PÇ-4	PÇ-5	PÇ-6	PÇ-7	PÇ-8	PÇ-9	PÇ-10	PÇ-11	PÇ-12	PÇ-13
OÇ-1	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	5	5	5	4
OÇ-2	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	5	4	5	4	5
OÇ-3	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5
OÇ-4	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	5
OÇ-5	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5

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