Objectives and competences
Students will be able to plan and design regulation measures on surface waters.
They will be able to appraise flood safety of a stream and plan the flood protection measures.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Lectures:
Surface water classification
Hydrology and hydraulic properties of natural watersources
Basics of surface water regulation: river mechanics (bed-load discharge, turbidity), river hydraulics, torrent hydraulics, river morphology, erosion, sedimentation
Classical surface water regulation: watercourse layout design, flood protection, riverbed channeling, dimensioning and maintaining of water structures
Sustainable surface water regulation: river corridor, hydromorfological condition of watercourses, planning and maintaining of sustainable regulations
Regulation structures: distribution, elements, materials
Building of regulation structures; basic principles
Regulation methods: landslide protection, technical and ecological basics of natural watercourse regulation, live materials usage
Flood protection
Tutorial:
Examples of river hydraulics and mechanics (open channel flow, flow areas, composed flow areas, planning of stable areas, sediment motion)
Hydraulic calculation and regulation of watercourse section with HEC-RAS software
Learning and teaching methods
Classical lectures with several Power Point presentations and combined with the use of commercial computer tools in this field of interest (HEC-RAS).
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding:
Students will be able to:
? classify surface waters and describe their properties
? describe and compute hydrological and hydraulical properties of streams
? explain the erosion and sedimentation processes in rivers
? plan the regulation measures for stabilization of river bank
? plan the sustainable regulation measures on streams
? asses the flood safety of a river section
? plan the flood protection measures
Readings
- M. Mikoš: Urejanje vodotokov, FGG Ljubljana, 2000
- M. Brilly: Zaščita pred poplavami, FGG Ljubljana 1994
- T. W. Sturm, Open Channel Hydraulics, 2nd ed., Mc Graww Hill 2010
- H. Chanson, The hydraulics of open channel flow, University of Queensland, Australia, 1999
- D. Muškatirović, Regulacija reka, Gradjevinski fakultet Beograd, 1979
- http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/
Prerequisits
Recommended knowledge from the fields of fluid mechanics, hydrotechnics, geotechnics and soil mechanics.
Prerequisite for an examination is a completed project.
