Hydraulic Structures

  • Water abstraction structures -Head Works-
  • Dams and Weirs
    • Fixed weirs
    • Movable weirs
    • Spillways
    • Energy Dissipation Structures
    • Rip Rap / rough surface chute
    • Hydraulics Aspects of Reservoirs
  • Outlet Works
  • Hydropower plants
    • Historical development
    • Potential determination
    • Construction methods
    • Rakes and trash racks
    • Turbines
    • Diffusors
    • Environmental impacts
    • Fish protection and passage
    • Efficiency, work plan and yield estimation
  • Case studies

Modelling

  • Possible applications of physical and numerical models
    • Model Theory
    • Areas of application
  • Physical models
    • Similarity laws
    • Transferability limits
    • Possible applications
    • Planning and construction
    • Measurement and control technology
    • Analysis of measured values
  • Numerical models
  • Etho-hydraulic models
  • Hybrid Models
  • Case studies