Free Surface Flows

By Prof. Mohammad Saud Afzal | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 274 | Exam registration: 7

ABOUT THE COURSE:

This is a 12-week course on Free Surface Flows spanning across different topics including uniform flow,critical flow, gradually varied flow, rapidly varied flows, spatially varied flows and unsteady open channelflows. The course is intended for UG, PG and PhD students of the department of civil, mechanical,agricultural and ocean engineering who are interested in developing a better understanding on the area of environmental open channel flows. The course is also suitable for applied mathematicians who are interested in some theoretical analysis pertaining to civil engineering hydraulics.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG/ PG/ PhD students of the department of Civil,Mechanical, Ocean and Agricultural Engineering.

PREREQUISITES: Fluid Mechanics

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Civil Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	20 Jan 2025
End Date :	11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends :	03 Feb 2025
Exam Registration Ends :	14 Feb 2025
Exam Date :	27 Apr 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to the basic concepts

Week 2: Critical flows

Week 3: Problems on critical flows

Week 4: Uniform flows

Week 5: Problems on uniform flow computations

Week 6: Gradually varied flows

Week 7: Problems on gradually varied flows

Week 8: Spatially varied flows

Week 9: Rapidly varied flows

Week 10: Gradually varied unsteady flows

Week 11: Rapidly varied unsteady flows

Week 12: Problems on open channel transients

Books and references

1.Open channel Flow, K. Subramanya, Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Open-Channel flow, M. Hanif Choudhury,Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Instructor bio

Prof. Mohammad Saud Afzal

IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Mohammad Saud Afzal is an assistant professor in Department of Civil engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is an established researcher in the field of Hydraulics and water resources. His research area focuses on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hydraulics of sediment transport, Coastal Engineering and machine learning and artificial intelligence in Hydraulics. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Tu- Delft and Norwegian university of science and Technology (NTNU). He is known for his numerical analysis technique in the field of hydraulics and sediment transport.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: April 27, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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