Unit AGRICULTURAL HYDRAULICS

Course
Agricultural and environmental sciences
Study-unit Code
80001806
Curriculum
Agricoltura sostenibile
Teacher
Francesco Mannocchi
Teachers
  • Francesco Mannocchi
Hours
  • 60 ore - Francesco Mannocchi
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2016
Offered
2017/18
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Sector
AGR/08
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
ITALIAN
Contents
Water resources in agro-forest lands. 
Hydrostatics. 
Fluids in motion 
Hydrostatics in soil water zone. 
Groundwater motion.
Reference texts
1. Set of university lectures 
2. BENINI G., Sistemazioni idraulico-forestali, UTET, Torino 
3. DE MARCHI G., NOSEDA G., CITRINI D., Nozioni di idraulica con particolare riguardo ai problemi delle bonifiche e delle irrigazioni, EDAGRICOLE, Bologna 
4. FALCIAI M., Appunti di Idraulica Agraria, CUSL, Firenze.
Educational objectives
Basic Knowledge: fluids, hydrological cycle, hydrostatics, fluid in motion, hydrostatics in soil water zone, groundwater motion.Basic competences: analysis and design of irrigation systems.  analysis and design of drainage systems, basic analysis of water resource managementBehaviour: sensibility to water resource problems and to environmental protection.  
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: Mathematics, Physics
Teaching methods
LecturesPractices Teaching and learning supports: seminar videos, set of university lectures on MOODLE, books  
Other information
Professor address: Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie. Alimentari e Ambientali (DSA3); Borgo XX Giugno 74. Perugia; Phone: 075 5856042 e_mail: francesco.mannocchi@unipg.itReception  time-table dependent on the semester: see  http://www.unipg.it/personale/000661 or http://www.agr.unipg.it/ A student may be also received by appointement,  via e_mail  application to francesco.mannocchi@unipg.it
Learning verification modality
Oral exam aimed to verify the student knowledges, his discussion capacity, his applicative capacity  related to solve hydraulics problems.The exam consists in a discussion of about 30-45 minutes on 3 questions  at least. The questions are related to differents topics (hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, soil water retention) of the programme illustrated during the lectures.
Extended program
FLUIDS and THEIR PROPERTIES 
Compressive and incompressible fluids. Density, Unit weight, viscosity. 

WATER RESOURCES in AGRO-FOREST LANDS 
Hydrological cycle. Precipitation. Evapotraspiration. Overland flow. Infiltration. Percolation. Groundwater. 

HYDROSTATICS 
Intensity of pressure. Variation of pressure in a liquid. Surfaces of equal pressure. Diagram of pressure in a plane area. Total pressure on a plane area. Center of pressure. Horizontal pressure on curved surface. Vertical pressure on curved surface. 
Practical training: pressure diagram, water pressure on weirFLUIDS in MOTION 
Kinematics of fluid flow. Equation of continuity. Bernoulli's theorem. Extention of Bernoulli's theorem. Flow through pipes. Flow in open channel.Practical training: Bernouilli's applicicative problems, Hydraulics designs

HYDROSTATICS in SOIL WATER ZONE 
Interfacial tension. Adsorption. Capillarity. Capillary pressure. Moisture Retention. Moisture distribution in a vertical profile. Retention curves. 

GROUNDWATER MOTION 
Flow in the unsaturated zone (outlines). Aquifers. Darcy's law. Hydraulic conductivity.Wells.Practical training: wells