CIVL 418 - Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Credit Hours: 1

Required of all Civil and Environmental Engineering seniors. Accomplishments of laboratory exercises and experiments to illustrate basic concepts of fluid mechanics and to validate empirical formulas used in hydraulic computations. Principal emphasis is on the phenomena associated with closed conduit and open channel flow of water, measurement of velocities, and flow rates and operational characteristics of pumps. A minimum of 1 experiment will involve the use of the computers to evaluate laboratory data.
Laboratory: 2 hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Hydrology and Hydraulics (CIVL 321).