Abstract: At the University of Newcastle, Hydraulic Engineering Design is part of the fourth (final) year curriculum of the (undergraduate) MEng course and of the 1-year (postgraduate) MSc course. The prerequisites are a good ...

Abstract: The Brent Reservoir was constructed in the mid-1830s and its siphon spillways were completed in 1936 to protect the dam from overtopping in the event of an extreme flood. Since completion, there have been problems with the ...

Abstract: The characteristics of a parabolic-bottomed triangle cross section are introduced. For this geometry the “best” hydraulic cross section is determined by using the undetermined multipliers method of Lagrange. For a given ...