Hydraulics
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Hydraulics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Hydraulics (subject code 4330604) as prescribed for Electronics · Semester 3 divides the course into 4 units, covering 17 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4330604)Unit 1 Pressure measureme nt and Hydrostatic pressure
- 1.7.1. Computation of Total Pressure and depth of the center of pressure
Unit 2 Hydro kinematics & Hydrodyna mics
- 2.1. Discharge & its units, Continuity Equation
- 2.2. Types of flow - Laminar --Turbulent --Uniform -- Non-uniform –Steady- -Un-steady –Rotational and irrotational --One, Two and Three Dimensional flow
- 2.3. Reynold’s number
- 2.4. Types of Energy – Potential, Pressure, and kinematics
- 2.5. Bernoulli’s theorem: statement, assumptions, derivation & limitations.
- 2.6. Practical application of Bernoulli”s theorem Civil Engineering Drawing Course Code: 4330604
Unit 3 Flow through pipes
- 3.2. Major Head losses in pipe: Computation by Darcy’s Weisbach equation, Use of Chezy’s & Manning’s formula, Nomograms 3.3Computation of minor head losses in a pipe.
- 3.4. Hydraulic Gradient Line (HGL) and Total Energy Line ( TEL)
- 3.5. Flow through pipes in series (Compound Pipe), pipes in parallel.
- 3.6. Equivalent Pipe 3.7Discharge measurement using orifice
- 3.8. Various Hydraulic Coefficient and its relation
Unit 4 Flow through Open Channel 4a.Explain Geometrical properties of channel section 4b.Compute discharge through
- 4.2. Geometrical properties of channel section: Wetted area, wetted perimeter, hydraulic radius, hydraulic mean depth for rectangular and trapezoidal channel section, Froud’s number, 4.3Determination of discharge by Chezy’s equation and Manning’s equation, Bazin’s equation, and Kutter’s equation. (Without derivation) 4.4Conditions for the most economical section: rectangular, Trapezoidal, and circular section of open channel.
- 4.5. Discharge measuring devices: Triangular and rectangular Notches.
- 4.6. Computation of discharge through different types of weir: Narrow, Broad, Sharp crested weir; Cippoletti weir and Ogee weir.
- 4.6. Specific energy diagram, Hydraulic jump
- 4.7. River gauging & measurement of mean velocity. Civil Engineering Drawing Course Code: 4330604
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