Computational hydraulics

The aim is to give an understanding of the numerical approximation and solution of physical systems, especially in open channel hydraulics, but with more general application in hydraulics and fluid mechanics generally. The marriage of hydraulics and computations has not always been happy, and often unnecessarily complicated methods have been developed and used, when a little more computational sophistication would have shown the possibility of using rather simpler methods. This course considers a number of problems in hydraulics, and it is shown how general methods, based on computational theory and practice, can be used to give simple methods that can be used in practice.