ICYA-4704 Piping Hydraulics
Flow in pressure systems. Equations for designing piping. Colebrook-White equation. Design and design algorithms: simple pipes, simple pipes with high minor losses, pipes in series, parallel pipes. Design of main pipe systems. Rotodynamic pumps, designs for piping systems including pumps. Design of piping networks: basic principles, Hardy-Cross methods with flow correction, Hardy -Cross method with head correction, Newton-Raphson method, linear theory method. New methods for calculating and designing networks. Current research on friction factors in pipes. Design of pressure irrigation systems: spray, micro-spray, and drip, calculation of required flows, and required power and diameters.
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