Module 1.2 - Winter Semester 2022/23

Hydrology and Hydraulics


Lecture Notes


Course hydrological modelling

ECTS: 3
Lecturer: Dr. Molkenthin, Dr. Olivares
Mode: weekly
Time: see time table
Description: hydrological cycle, precipitations measurements and analysis,
rainfall-runoff analysis,
empirical, lumped method SCS
distributed model Shetran
exercises for lumped and distributed model for a case study catchment

Course open channel hydraulics

ECTS: 3
Lecturer: Dr. Molkenthin
Mode: weekly
Time: see time table
Description: channel and pipe flow,
conservation laws,
uniform flow in channels,
channel transitions,
critical flow,
gradually varied flow: water profiles,
hydraulic structures, sediment transport,
numerical modelling of river flow and hydraulic structures,
exercises based on analytic solutions and assumptions