Retention Ponds and Urban Lagoons - Rain Water Storage Units in Urban Planning
In recent years new trends in hydrology have emerged because of high urban development. This necessitated reviews of theory and practice in this …
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Hydraulics in Civil Engineering
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Accelerations in Fluid Flow. What is Tangential Acceleration?
If velocity is a basic property of any fluid flow then the change in velocity, acceleration, is also an important attribute of fluid particles in a …
Continue ReadingKinematic Analysis of Fluid Flow: Position and Velocity Description – Lagrangian and Eulerian Approach
Like any other mechanical system, the analysis of fluid flow or the mechanics of fluid flow has two parts: the kinematic analysis of fluid flow and …
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Fluid Particles, Streamtubes and Derivation of Continuity Equation
To understand any problem or physical phenomenon, organize it into parts and consider each part separately and in association with other parts. …
Continue ReadingCareers in Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering is one of the most popular and commonly applied branches of engineering. There is hardly any day in our life when we don’t come …
Continue ReadingControl Volume, Differential, Integral, Lagrangian, Eulerian Approaches, System: Fluid Flow Analysis
We have fluid flows with different levels of complexities and we have solution requirements with different levels of details. To deal with the …
Continue ReadingFluid Flow Visualization - Timelines, Pathlines, Streaklines and Streamlines
In engineering, graphical representation is worth, if not thousand, many equations. To understand the fluid flow effectively we have to visualize it …
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How do Waste Water Treatment Plants Work?
Learn about Waste Water Plants processes and methods. This article will introduce you to the the waste water management world.
Continue ReadingClassification of Fluid Flow – Uniform Flow and Non-Uniform Flow
When a fluid flows past a point or through a path different parameters associated with the flow of the fluid vary in different patterns. In this …
Continue ReadingTypes of Fluid Flow – Laminar Flow, Turbulent Flow, Rotational and Irrotational Flow
Fluid flow can be very smooth, calm, and regular, but generally the flow of a fluid is not so disciplined- it becomes a vagabond and starts flowing in …
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