Applied Fluid Mechanics Courses
C E 646 Flood Hazards and Protective Design 3(3,0). Study of flood hazards and methods of protective design of the built environment. Floodplain mapping and delineation. Methods for determining base flood elevations. Flood-resistant construction, flood proofing, and governmental regulations are discussed. Includes case studies and design projects. Coreq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 647 Stormwater Management 3(3,0). Evaluation of peak discharges for urban and rural basins, design of highway drainage structures such as inlets and culverts; stormwater and receiving water quality; best management practices; detention and retention ponds; and erosion and sediment control. Preq: C E 342. Coreq: EE&S 401 or consent of instructor.
C E 648 Physical Models in Hydraulics 3(2,3). Tools and techniques of physical modeling to aid in design of complex hydraulic systems. Students participate in construction, operation, and testing of physical models to solve hydraulic engineering design problems. Experimental design and operation are covered.Preq: E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 649 Hydraulic Structures 3(3,0). Design methods and procedures are taught for a variety of hydraulic structures including intake structures, complex open-channel and closed conduit control structures, transitions, spillways, small dam, and pond design. Field trips to actual hydraulic structures may be included. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 662 Coastal Engineering I 3(3,0). Introduction to coastal and oceanographic engineering principles including wave mechanics, wave-structure interaction, coastal water-level fluctuations, coastal-zone processes, and design considerations for coastal structures and beach nourishment projects. Preq: C E 341 or consent of instructor.
C E 682 Groundwater and Contaminant Transport 3(3,0). Basic principles of groundwater hydrology and transport of contaminants in groundwater systems; groundwater system characteristics; steady and transient flow; well hydraulics, design and testing; contaminant sources, movement and transformations. Preq: C E 341. Coreq: EE&S 401.
C E 846 Flow in Open Channels 3(3,0). Free surface flow problems; applications of digital computer; concepts of boundary layer theory; uniform and varied flow; hydraulic jump; design criteria for prismatic channels and transitions; applications of unsteady flow. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 860 Advanced Fluid Mechanics 3(3,0). Laminar and turbulent flows; boundary layer and free shear flows (jets, wakes, etc.); descriptions of velocity, shear stress and pressure measurements, and aerodynamic drag.
C E 861 Mechanics of Sediment Transport 3(3,0). Characterization of sediments; physical principles governing fluvial, estuarial, and coastal transport of cohesionless and cohesive sediments, including incipient motion, stable channel design, bedforms, and bedload and suspended transport. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 865 Hydrologic Systems Analysis 3(3,0). Hydrologic cycle as a hydrologic system; deterministic hydrology; aspects of physical hydrology emphasizing balanced approach to groundwater hydrology and surface water hydrology; infiltration; soil moisture and evapotranspiration; probability analysis and system synthesis by convolution. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.
C E 867 Pipeline Hydraulics 3(3,0). Pressurized pipeline design including economic analysis, pipe sizing and selection; applications in civil engineering; prediction and control of cavitation; transient analysis; and methods of suppression. Students participate in a team-oriented design project. Preq: C E 341 or consent of instructor.
C E 868 Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics 3(3,0). Study of turbulence and basic flow equations as they impact the environment. Includes slender flows including circular and plane turbulent jets, jets in crossflows, wall, suface jets, and plumes; near-field and far-field analysis of discharge in rivers including continuous momentum discharges, non-bouyant plumes, and passive slugs; mixing in lakes and reservoirs; and stratified flows.
C E 875 Numerical Models in Hydraulics 3(3,0). Students learn applications of numerical modeling, finite difference, finite volume, and finite element, as tools for solving complex problems in the areas of hydraulics/fluid mechanics. Students learn techniques of developing and analyzing computational models for parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic equations used in the area of hydraulics. Preq: C E 342 or consent of instructor.