The course teaches the basics of hydromechanics, relevant for civil and environemental engineers.
Objective
Familiarization with the basics of hydromechanics of steady state flows
Content
Properties of water, hydrostatics, stability of floating bodies, continuity, Euler equation of motion, Navier-Stokes equations, similarity, Bernoulli principle, momentum equation for finite volumes, potential flows, ideal fluids vs. real fluids, boundary layer, pipe flow, open channel flow, flow measurements, demonstration experiments in the lecture hall
Lecture notes
Script and collection of previous problems
Literature
Bollrich, Technische Hydromechanik 1, Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin