| Academic Year |
2024Year |
School/Graduate School |
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering (Master's Course) Division of Advanced Science and Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Program |
| Lecture Code |
WSM20501 |
Subject Classification |
Specialized Education |
| Subject Name |
Environmental Fluid Mechanics |
Subject Name
（Katakana） |
エンバイロメンタル フルイド メカニクス |
Subject Name in
English |
Environmental Fluid Mechanics |
| Instructor |
UCHIDA TATSUHIKO |
Instructor
(Katakana) |
ウチダ タツヒコ |
| Campus |
Higashi-Hiroshima |
Semester/Term |
1st-Year, Second Semester, 3Term |
| Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(3T) Tues7-8,Fri7-8 |
| Lesson Style |
Lecture |
Lesson Style
(More Details) |
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| LCD projector, Writing on whiteboard |
| Credits |
2.0 |
Class Hours/Week |
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Language of Instruction |
E
:
English |
| Course Level |
6
:
Graduate Advanced
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| Course Area（Area） |
25
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Science and Technology |
| Course Area（Discipline） |
13
:
Civil Engineering |
| Eligible Students |
Graduate Students in Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Keywords |
Turbulence, Diffusion, Dispersion, Numerical model, boundary layer, SDG_11 |
| Special Subject for Teacher Education |
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Special Subject |
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Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) | This course is prepared to provide the fundamental framework to analyze the water-related problems in rivers, lakes, and oceans. |
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Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) | |
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Class Objectives
/Class Outline |
This lecture course is mainly concerned with mass and momentum transport processes in water bodies such as rivers and lakes. It aims at providing students with the fundamentals of mixing processes and turbulence models with/without stratification. |
| Class Schedule |
lesson1 Introduction
Governing equations of fluid motion: Conservation laws of mass, momentum and energy
lesson3 Potential flow, vorticity, boundary layer
lesson4 RANS model(1): Reynolds’ decomposition, Equations for mean flow
RANS model(2): Equations for fluctuated flow and energy, energy cascade
lesson6 Wall law, roughness, log-law
lesson7 Drag force, vegetation model
lesson8 Introduction of CFD (assignment 1)
lesson9 Shallow water equation (SWE)
lesson10 Numerical analysis of SWE
lesson11 Applicability of SWE and three dimensional flow effects
lesson12 Vorticity equation
lesson13 Simplified Bottom Velocity Computation method with shallow water flow assumption (1)
lesson14 Simplified Bottom Velocity Computation method with shallow water flow assumption (2)
lesson15 General Bottom Velocity Computation method
2 assignments |
Text/Reference
Books,etc. |
Handouts |
PC or AV used in
Class,etc. |
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| (More Details) |
LCD projector |
| Learning techniques to be incorporated |
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Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review |
Review previous lessons using the lecture notes and the references. |
| Requirements |
This lecture needs basic knowledge of fluid mechanics and hydraulics. |
| Grading Method |
The score of this course is graded by assignments |
| Practical Experience |
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| Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it |
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| Message |
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| Other |
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Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. |