CITY COLLEGE OF CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Department of Civil Engineering
Fall 2005
CE 36500 – Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Instructor: Prof. Reza Khanbilvardi
Teaching Assistant: Tarendra Lakhankar (Room# 115)
E-mail for TA: tarendra@ce.ccny.cuny.edu
Lecture: M W 12:30-1:20
Lab:
Tuesday 2:00-4:50
TA Office Hrs: M W 2:00 - 3:00
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this course is to give civil engineering majors a basic understanding of flow systems in closed
and open hydraulic and hydrologic systems. This course is designed to provide detail computation for
studying, analyzing and design of components of hydraulic systems such as pipes, pumps, open channels
and storm collection systems. Included in this course will be two hydraulic laboratory experiments and
three computer lab experiments using a commercial software (i.e. Haestad-Method© software) which help
students to design and visualize different hydraulic and hydrological phenomena in professional manner.
The following topics will be covered during course work:
1. Review of the basic hydraulic principles (~1 week): flow characteristics, energy principles, hydraulic
grade.
2. Piping systems (1.5 weeks): pipes in series and parallel, energy gains and losses. Hydraulic Lab 1
(pipe flow experiment).
3. Pipe Network Analysis (1 week): Computer Lab 1 (Water Distribution Design)
4. Open channel flow and specific energy losses, critical, supercritical and sub-critical flow (1 week).
Hydraulic Lab 2(open channel flow experiment).
5. Gradually and rapidly varied flow, uniform and non-uniform flow, weir flow and orifice flow (1.5
weeks)
6. Introduction to hydrology principles (~1.5 weeks): rainfall characteristics, rainfall abstractions and
runoff volume, peak runoff computation, computing hydrographs.
7. Introduction to Haestad Method Software: (~1 week): lecture and lab tutorial.
8. Surface runoff computations (1 week): Computer Lab 2 (Storm water detention design)
9. Storm runoff collection design (1.5 weeks): Computer Lab 3 (Storm sewer collection design)
10. Pumping system design (1 week): pump characteristics, pumps in series, pumps in parallel, pump
stations
11. Reservoirs, wells, storage tanks (1 week)
12. Examinations and projects’ presentations (~1 week)
Required Text:

Hwang N.H.C. and Houghtalen R.J. (1996), Fundamentals of Hydraulic Engineering Systems, 3rd Ed.,
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Computer Applications in Hydraulic Engineering, 5th Ed. Haestad Methods Inc. Waterbury, CT.
Other References:
1. Mays, L.W.(1999). Hydraulic Design Handbook. McGraw Hill, Inc., New York (ISBN: 0070411522)
2. Robertson, J.A., Cassidy, J.J. and Chaudhry, M.H. (1998). Hydraulic Engineering, 2nd Ed., John Wiley
and Sons, Inc., New York, NY
3. Roberson, J.A. and Crowe, C.T. (1997) Engineering Fluid Mechanics. 6th Ed., John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
New York, NY
Design Project:
Projects will facilitate assimilation of and practicing with concepts learned in class. About 1/3 of this
course is designed to produce guidelines and methodologies to design hydraulic and hydrological systems
which includes pipes, pumps and storm water collection system using professional design software. For
example, students are given a scenario in which certain flow rate has to be provided from a reservoir or
well to a higher elevation community via a piping network using storage systems. They have to select
from at least four different size pumps and appropriate combination system with a designed pipe system
to be sufficient. This process includes decisions on the hydraulic system, efficiency consideration, and
cost estimation. Students must use a commercial software (i.e. Haestad-Method© software) to solve,
compute, and submit their work.
GRADING CRITERIA
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Midterms (30%) – Two midterm exams will be administered during class time. The two
exams will contain computing and theoretical components.
Homework (10%) – A total of 10 assignments will be administrated during the semester
(one each week)
Project (20%) – Projects will be assigned in the second half of the semester. Students will
work in small teams to complete and present the written and the orals parts of projects.
Laboratory Reports (10%)
Computer Lab (10%) – A total of three computer labs will be given. These computer labs
will be submitted using commercial software and a written report.
Final exam (20%)
CE-36500 Hydrology and Hydraulics
Engineering
Time: 12:30 to 01:20 PM
Date/Day
08/30- Tuesday
08/31- Wednesday
09/05- Monday
09/07- Wednesday
09/12- Monday
09/14- Wednesday
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09/28- Wednesday
10/03- Monday
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10/31- Monday
11/02- Wednesday
11/07- Monday
11/09- Wednesday
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11/28- Monday
11/30- Wednesday
12/05- Monday
12/07- Wednesday
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12/14- Wednesday
Lecture
Introduction
1. Basic principles, flow characteristics
College Closed
2. Energy principle and Hydraulic System
3. Piping System
4. Pipes in Series and Parallel
5. Energy gain and loss
6. Pipe Network analysis
7. Pipe Network analysis
8. Open Channel flow, Specific Energy losses
9. Flow type, critical, sub-critical, super-critical
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Mid Term 1 (Monday schedule)
No Class
10. Gradually varied flow
11. Rapidly varied flow
12. Uniform-Non uniform flow, weir, orifice
13. Basics of Hydrology
14. Rainfall and Runoff
15. Hydrograph
Mid Term 2
16. Surface runoff computation
17. Surface runoff computation (Problem)
18. Storm runoff collection design
19. Storm runoff collection design (Problem)
20. Storm runoff collection design (Problem)
21. Pumping system design, Basics
22. Pumps in Series and parallel
23. Pumps in Series and parallel
24. Reservoir
25. Well, Storage tanks
Review of Final
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