ENV-424 / 5 credits

Teacher(s): Rinaldo Andrea, Trevisin Cristiano

Language: English


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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