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Hydraulics |
Deals with the application of fluid mechanics to engineering devices involving liquids, usually water or oil. |
Originates from Greek words hydror meaning water and aulos meaning pipe |
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Fluid Mechanics |
Provides the theoretical foundation for hydraulics, which focuses on the engineering uses of fluid properties. |
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Hydrology |
Studies the movement, distribution, quantity and quality of water throughout Earth, including hydrologic cycle. |
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Water Resources Engineering |
A specialization under Civil Engineering that involves the design of new systems and equipment in the management and optimization of human water resources. |
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Hydrostatics |
Fluid statics that studies incompressible fluids at rest |
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Hydrokinematics |
Engineering science pertaining to study of velocity and acceleration of liquid w/o considering any force or energy. |
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Hydrodynamics |
Deals w/ the motion of liquid such as determining the mass of flowrate of a particular fluid in a pipeline. |
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Advanced Hydraulics |
Describes the flow and properties in an open channel, velocity distribution across and along the channel, hydraulics jump and jump types and turbine and pump types used in hydraulic related subjects. |
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Computational Hydraulics |
Is an applied science w/c deals w/ the simulations and solutions of flow and transport phenomena in surface waters, pipes and pipe networks and channel networks using numerical methods, preferably using computer software. |
Computational hydraulic software |
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Egyptians and inhabtitants of Persia, Babylonia, India, and China |
They transported water thru channels or canals for domestic and agricultural purposes w/ dams and sluice gates as flow regulator. |
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Greeks |
They were the first to rationalize the nature of pressure and flow patterns. |
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Ctesibius (Ctesibius Alexandrinus or Ctesibius of Alexandria) |
He is best known for various inventions: suction pump, water clock, hydraulis -- the ancestor of pipe organ and hydraulic joist. |
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Heron of Alexandria (Hero) |
A famous Greek inventor considered as the "greatest experimenter of antiquity" and known for developing various hydraulic equipment (such as pneumatic pump) |
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Ancient Cretans (Crete - largest and most populous of Greek inlands) |
They had a decorative plumbing system. |
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