Hydraulics Lab (Writing)

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Prerequisites: Completion of the Core Curriculum Research & Professional Writing requirement; CVE 360 or ESC 301. Corequisite: CVE 361. Experimental verification of pump, open channel, and ground-water energy-loss theories. Measurement of pipe and open-channel flow. Determination of centrifugal pump operating characteristics. Application of probability, statistics, linear algebra and numerical methods to hydraulic and hydrology problems. Topics include venturi meter coefficient, friction and bend loss coefficients, groundwater flow, water distribution systems, open channel flow measurement, pump characteristics, hydraulic transients, and hydraulic jump verification.