Water resources engineering
Summary
Water resources engineering designs systems to control the quantity, quality, timing, and distribution of water to support human demands and the needs of the environment.
Content
- Water use and water withdrawals;
- Crop and irrigation water needs;
- Multipurpose water reservoir design and management (irrigation, water use, flood control, energy production);
- Review of principles of fluid mechanics for pipe flow;
- Water distribution networks;
- Pumps and turbines: characteristics and operating points;
- Hydropower production;
- Model of rainfall generation for Monte Carlo approaches;
- Flood control;
- Environmental flow;
- Multicriteria optimization;
- Water resources & climate change.
- Advanced topics in water resources engineering
Keywords
Hydrologic modeling; water management; floods; droughts; distribution of water
Learning Prerequisites
Recommended courses
Hydrology, elementary fluid mechanics, MatLab
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Model the continuous functioning of a multipourpouse reservoir
- Design water reservoir for generic input and output flow timeseries
- Estimate irrigation water needs and irrigation water withdawals
- Estimate hydropower production
- Design distribution networks
- Predict the effect of flood control measures
- Implement and code simple conceptual hydrological models
- Compute the operating point of a pump
- Estimate the potential energy produced by a hydropower plant
- Develop models of synthetic rainfall
Transversal skills
- Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools
Teaching methods
Ex cathedra teaching, exercises
Expected student activities
- Attendance at lectures
- Weekly exercises
- Semester assignment
Assessment methods
Homework assignment 30%, Final exam in the post-semester exam period 70%
Resources
Bibliography
Slides of Lectures
Support Textbook: Mays L.W., Water Resources Engineering, Wiley, New York, 2005
Ressources en bibliothèque
Moodle Link
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Water resources engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Water resources engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Water resources engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Water resources engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exercises: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
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