1. Review of Fluid Mechanics
-Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy
-Boundary conditions for free-surface water flows
2. Derivations of Shallow-Water Theories
-Mathematical preliminaries
-Derivation of shallow-water equations
-Types of shallow-water flows and simplified models:
3. Hydrostatic Shallow Water Flows
Method of Characteristics: Dam-break flow
Riemann problem: Bore and hydraulic jump
Carrier-Greenspan theory for wave run-up
4. Non-hydrostatic Shallow Water Flows
-Permanent wave solutions: Solitary and cnoidal wave solutions
-Turbulent/undular bores, critical wave and wave breaking
-Laboratory demonstrations of non-hydrostatic shallow-water flows
5. Applifcations of Shallow Water Theories
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