Hydraulic engineering is a subdiscipline of civil and environmental engineering that applies fluid mechanics, hydrology, and sediment transport theory to the analysis, design, and management of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The study of how liquid behaves is called hydraulics. The word comes from two Greek words meaning water and pipe.

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery at Petra, the Nabataean capital in Jordan. They found a highly developed hydraulic system that challenges the long-held belief that advanced hydraulics ...