Semester:
N/A
Introduction to the water cycle, flood frequency analysis, design storms. Analysis of hydrographs and rainfall-runoff response mechanisms in urban and natural systems. Mass continuity and water budgets at the watershed scale. Impact of land use change on hydrologic response. Quantification of open channel flow; subcritical and supercritical flow regimes. Dynamic forces on submerged structures and low/scour beneath bridges.
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply water balances for budgeting problems
- Explain the physics of key hydrologic processes
- Design synthetic rainfall hyetographs and streamflow hydrographs
- Predict streamflow given rainfall and watershed characteristics
- Quantify the effect of land use changes on runoff and streamflow
- Understand the role of channels (and rivers) in land drainage and conveyance of sediment
- Calculate the normal depth/discharge of flow in an open channel
- Calculate critical, alternate, and sequent depths in channels
- Calculate forces on objects submerged in flowing water
- Design simple hydraulic structures such as weirs and gates
This course has two labs:
- (Computer Lab) Watershed delineation using ArcGIS Pro
- (Flume Lab) Hydraulic jump in open channel flow
