COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HYDRAULICS OF PIPELINES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5137 HYDRAULICS OF PIPELINES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BIROL KAYA

Offered to

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES

Course Objective

The course aims to provide the necessary theoretical knowledge to analyse water distribution networks and to compute the various networks according to different demand-supply alternatives.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the design criteria of branched and looped networks.
2   To determine the characteristics of a specified network which operates in steady conditions
3   To check into consideration the needs which can be variable in time.
4   To investigate the behavior of the projected network under unsteady conditions.
5   To determine the waterhammer and to solve using Charecteristics method.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic information, Through the pipe flow
2 Manifold Flow
3 Pipe Networks, Branched system and Looped system
4 Pipe Network Analysis, Energy and Continuity Equations
5 Q equations and numerical solution
6 H equations and numerical solution
7 DQ equations and numerical solution
8 Data to Describe Pipeline Systems, Pressure Reduction and Back Pressure Valves
9 Simulation
10 Economical Analysis of Networks
11 Mid-Term Exam
12 Unsteady Flows
13 Numerical Solutions of Unsteady Flows-Characteristics Method
14 Boundary Conditions

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Larock,B.,E., Jeppson,W.R, Watters, G.Z., Hydraulics of Pipeline Systems. CRC Press, 2000.

Supplementary Book(s): Jeppson,W.R., Analysis of Flow in Pipe Networks, Butterworth Publishers, 1976

Chaudry,M.H., Applied Hydraulic Transients, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1979.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture. There is also some homework which is to be prepared and presented individually.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-5 are evaluated with mid-term, homeworks and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof. Dr. Birol Kaya
E-mail:birol.kaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

If the course schedule created, it will be announced by the instructor.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 188

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.254
LO.344
LO.435
LO.544

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