Subject Code: CE6L501 Name: Open Channel Flows L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit: 4

Prerequisite: None
Energy and momentum of flow; Critical flow; Channel control and transitions; Discharge measurement methods; Uniform flow and flow resistance; Composite roughness and compound channels; Gradually varied flow; Classifications and computations of free surface profiles; Spatially varied flow; Supercritical flows and oblique flows; Rapidly varied flow; Hydraulic jump; Continuity and dynamic equations of unsteady flow; Wave propagation and surge; Method of characteristics; Dam-break problem; Flow in channel bends; Buoyant and submerged jets.
Text/Reference Books:

  • Subramanya, K., Flow in Open Channels, Third Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 2009.
  • Chanson, H., The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction, Second Edition, Elsevier, 2004.
  • Ven Te Chow, Open Channel Hydraulics, Reprint, Blackburn Press, 2009.
  • French, R. H., Open Channel Hydraulics, Water Resources Publications, LLC, 2007.
  • Sturm, T. W., Open Channel Hydraulics, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2010.