Hydraulics in Civil Engineering

Dr. Christoph Rapp was a research associate at the Chair of Hydraulics and Hydrology and later the Department of Hydromechanics at the Technical University of Munich. He was head of the laboratory there after receiving his doctorate. In addition to experimental research into complex flows, he devoted himself to illustrative teaching. He received several prizes for this, including the Ernst Otto Fischer Teaching Prize for an innovative teaching concept. In the context of his collaboration with Markus Heinsdorff, he inspires with installation art on the subject of water. He is head of the hydropower department of an energy supplier and lectures at Bauhaus University, Weimar. He also currently teaches at universities in developing countries through the International Knowledge Exchange Association, which he founded (Verein zur Förderung des internationalen Wissensaustauschs e.V.).

About water.- Part I: Fundamentals and derivations.- Essential mathematics.- Essential physics.- Introduction to potential theory.- Basic equations.- Turbulence and its modelling.- Part II: Applied hydraulics.- Hydrostatics.- Bernoulli equation and energy diagrams.- Outflow from openings.- Momentum equation.- Steady pipe flow.- Unsteady pipe flow.- Steady free surface flow.- Unsteady free surface flow.- Introduction to groundwater flow.- Excercises.- Practical Examples.