Water Resources
Fluid mechanics, hydraulics, water treatment, and drainage: measuring how water behaves and how it is treated.
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Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulics Lab
COMPLETED · CIVE 3115 Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulics Laboratory · Summer I 2026 · Four-student team
Featured experiment: wind tunnel (Pitot-tube) test. Measured velocity pressure with a Pitot-static tube and inclined manometer across four fan settings, then calculated air velocity and flow rate (Q = VA).
- Average velocity at fan settings 20 / 40 / 60 / 80: 9.43, 19.99, 33.33, and 46.18 ft/s
- Peak centerline velocity 46.66 ft/s; flow rate 62.81 ft³/s at fan setting 80
- Velocity rose non-linearly with fan setting; pressure tracked the theoretical P ∝ V² relationship
Supporting experiments
- Pipe head loss (Darcy-Weisbach): smaller pipes showed much larger pressure loss at the same flow
- Bernoulli's equation: pressure fell as velocity rose through the throat, matching HGL / EGL theory
- Hydraulic jump: Froude number 1.96 → 0.92 and 3.63 → 0.93 across two gate setups
- Hydrostatic force: 0.757 N to 6.551 N with depth on a submerged surface, near-linear as theory predicts
Takeaway: every test came down to measuring a physical quantity, converting it with fluid-mechanics relationships, and comparing the result against theory.
Wind tunnel: velocity and flow by fan setting
Measured with a Pitot-static tube and inclined manometer across four fan settings. Tap or hover a bar to see how each value was found.
Environmental Engineering Lab
COMPLETED · CIVE 3331 Environmental Engineering Laboratory · Summer II 2026 · Individually written reports
- Coagulation & flocculation: alum jar tests on turbid water at five doses (7, 10, 15, 25, and 100 mg/L); 7 mg/L, the lowest dose, gave the best turbidity reduction
- Disinfection: coliform counts fell from more than 300 colonies untreated to about 20 after 2 minutes of contact with calcium hypochlorite
- Ion exchange: copper removal with Dowex C-211 resin, measured on a HACH DR/890 colorimeter; peak exchange capacity 112.40 mg Cu per g of resin at the 5 mg dose
- Hardness: 248.9 ppm as CaCO3 by EDTA titration (very hard water)
- Total dissolved solids: 0.5038% by evaporation (σ = 0.0095% over 4 trials)
- Biochemical oxygen demand: about 3.11 mg/L from a six-dilution test
Takeaway: each test paired a treatment step or measurement method with a number that showed whether it worked.
Site Drainage Details (AutoCAD)
COMPLETED · CIVE 1101 coursework · Guided exercises
AutoCAD drafting of standard civil site details, including a bio-retention swale typical section and a pedestrian rail detail, practicing layers, linework, and dimensioning.
These were guided exercises reproducing instructor-demonstrated details, not original engineering design.
Seepage & Flow Nets
IN PROGRESS · CIVE 3475 Geotechnical Engineering & Applications · Fall 2026
Coursework on groundwater seepage through soil using flow nets. Results will be added once the course work is complete.
Water Resources Engineering · IN PROGRESS · CIVE 4335 · Fall 2026. Current coursework. Results will be added once the course work is complete.