Unit APPLIED SCIENCES FOR DESIGN B

Course
Design
Study-unit Code
A002529
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Bruno Brunone
CFU
10
Course Regulation
Coorte 2024
Offered
2024/25
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa integrata

WATER FORMS DESIGN

Code A002530
CFU 5
Teacher Bruno Brunone
Teachers
  • Bruno Brunone
Hours
  • 45 ore - Bruno Brunone
Learning activities Affine/integrativa
Area Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline ICAR/01
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents This second module is entirely dedicated to the analysis of the most important types of devices used in the water industry, not neglecting those constructive aspects that may or may not determine their success and sustainability.
Reference texts Notes of the teachers distributed during the course.
Educational objectives The main aim of the course is to provide students with the tools to design and verify devices used in the water industry. In such a context, the course will make students aware of the experimental methods in fluid mechanics - applicable to the Interior Design, Exhibit Design, Retail Design or Product Design -to conjugate the rational approach with the needs of a modern and functional design in which water flow plays a crucial role.
Prerequisites According to the characteristics of the course, no prerequisite is required.
Teaching methods The course is organized as follows:
1) lectures on all the topics of the
course;
2) exercises about all the practical topics discussed during the
course;
3) laboratory tets at the Water Engineering Laboratory of the
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale
Other information As additional teaching activity, students will execute tests at the Water
Engineering Laboratory (WEL). Specifically, steady- and unsteady state
tests will be carried out in pressurized pipes to analyze energy dissipation
and pressure wave mechanisms. Moreover open channel flow tests will
be considered in the laboratory channel.
Learning verification modality The exam consists of an oral test.
Extended program Detail design scale
- product design
- faucets and mixers
- drinking water products
- water recovery (Warka Water, Watair, Fog catcher - inspiration, principle of operation, structure)
Architectural design scale
- power generation (Ovre Forsland hydroelectric power plant in Norway, Val-Jalbert in Canada,
- wastewater purification and recycling (Melbourne Zoo in Australia)
- water storage (Water Tower at Ghlin in Belgium)
Fountain design
- basic elements: release devices (nozzles, cascades), pumping systems, filtration systems, piping system for water recirculation and filtration, systems and devices for inlet and removal of water from the basin, some recurring schemes,
- definition of design parameters: physical properties, dimensional constraints of the fountain; type of construction, finishing materials and available mechanical space; surrounding environment (wind exposure, temperature and humidity);
- aesthetic considerations: size and shape of water effects, sound level and visibility relative to distance and viewing angles;
- guidelines for design, choice of release devices, and sizing of the pumping and filtering system.
Water treatment and filters
- Water and its characteristics
- Definition of drinking water
- Possible water treatments (potabilization, filtration, clarification, sedimentation-decantation, sterilization-disinfection, deodorization-dechlorination, softening, distillation, demineralization....)
- Insight into sand, cyclone, cartridge filters and skimmers
- Grids and filters for fountains

Copernicus data climate store: finding climate data useful for design

The shape of water: emotions associated with water and their examples in existing projects

Historical background and the sacredness of water: water through history

Scale of urban design
- Hints on water-sensitive urban design
- Water square Water square (Zollhalen Plaza in Freiburg, Germany, Benthemplein in Rotterdam, Netherlands-inspiration, principle of operation, rainwater infiltration systems, and hints on the concept of return time);
Spatial design scale
- Urban rain park (Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany)
- Buffer space (Water Park in Zaragoza in Spain)

Free-surface currents in uniform motion
- Main characteristics and differences from pressurized currents.
- Equation of uniform motion for free-surface currents
- The scale of flow rates under conditions of uniform motion
- Measurement of flow rate and water level in a channel.
Pressure currents
- Main characteristics of currents under pressure
- Evaluation of continuous (calculation of J) and concentrated pressure losses
- Pumping systems (principle of operation, equation of motion, power of a pump, net suction load, characteristic curve)

Exercise on the design of a fountain: choice of pump and characteristic curve, measurement of the flow rate and calculation of the height of the jet as a function of continuous pressure drop along the pipeline, and concentrated (at the terminal nozzle and at the line valve).

A number of Seminars have been organized.
In the course held in A.Y. 2023-2024 these covered:
Water and climate change, during the kickoff meeting of the European project More4water by the course lecturers.
"A Sound In Extinction: acoustic measurements in the Adamello Glacier for calibration of a thermo-fluid dynamics model of its future evolution," by Prof. Roberto Ranzi.

FUNDAMENTALS OF FLUID MECHANICS AND MEASUREMENTS

Code A002528
CFU 5
Teacher Bruno Brunone
Teachers
  • Bruno Brunone
  • Caterina Capponi (Codocenza)
  • Silvia Meniconi (Codocenza)
Hours
  • 18 ore - Bruno Brunone
  • 18 ore (Codocenza) - Caterina Capponi
  • 9 ore (Codocenza) - Silvia Meniconi
Learning activities Affine/integrativa
Area Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline ICAR/01
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents The behavior of the fluids and their main properties.
Statics of liquids.
Kinematics of liquids and flow equations.
Weakly dissipative flow processes.
Laminar and turbulent uniform flow.
Artificial porous media.
Reference texts B. Brunone, S. Meniconi e C. Capponi (2021). Fondamenti di Meccanica dei Fluidi Incomprimibili per allievi del corso di Laurea in Design. Morlacchi Editore U.P. (ISBN/EAN 9788893922692).
Distributed free of charge to students.
Educational objectives The main aim of this course is to lay the foundations of the fluid behavior from both the qualitative and quantitative point of view.
Prerequisites There is no prerequisite.
Teaching methods The course is divided into lessons and exercises. If allowed, some practical applications will be take place at the Water Engineering Laboratory (WEL) of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Other information At the end of the course some summary lessons will take place.
Learning verification modality The exam is oral.
Extended program The behavior of the fluids and their main properties (density, specific weight, no-slip condition, Newton law and viscosity measurement, stresses in a liquid, non-dimensional numbers (Reynolds number and Froude number), equation of state and compressibility, vapor pressure and solubility of air in water).

Statics of liquids (Stevin law, pressure distribution in a still liquid, pressure measurement).

Kinematics of liquids and flow equations (flow field characterization, flow discharge, gradually varied flow and the related pressure distribution, continuity equation, Bernoulli theorem, extension of the Bernoulli theorem to real liquids, discharge measurement).

Weakly dissipative flow processes (Pitot tube, outflow processes and Torricelly equation, Venturi process).

Laminar and turbulent uniform flow (Reynolds results, Moodu diagram, friction formulas).

Artificial porous media (Darcy law, the moka principle of functioning).
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

13: Climate Action
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