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Other Courses of the Study Programme

Course year: 1

BUILDING PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING - 9 credits - Related/Supplementary
ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS - 9 credits - Characterising
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING - 9 credits - Characterising
STRUCTURAL DESIGN - 9 credits - Characterising
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND SEISMOLOGY - 9 credits - Characterising
URBAN PLANNING AND RISK MITIGATION
Attendance grouping
9 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza

Course year: 2

ADVANCED GEOMATICS - 9 credits - Characterising
ADVANCED REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES - 3 credits - Student's own choice
APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESOURCE LIMITED COUNTRIES - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION - 6 credits - Characterising
DESIGN OF SEISMIC RESISTANT STRUCTURES - 9 credits - Characterising
FINAL THESIS - 12 credits - Language/Final Examination
HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES - 9 credits - Characterising
MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND SIMULATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - 6 credits - Student's own choice
REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES - 6 credits - Characterising
REMOTE SENSING
Attendance grouping
9 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
STRUCTURAL REHABILITATION - 6 credits - Characterising
SUMMER SCHOOL - 3 credits - Student's own choice
TRAINING ACTIVITY/INTERNSHIP 6 CREDITS - MASTER LEVEL - 6 credits - Student's own choice
TRAINING ACTIVITY/INTERNSHIP 9 CREDITS - MASTER LEVEL - 9 credits - Student's own choice
WATER AND WASTE TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN - 9 credits - Characterising

ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019/2020

Academic Year of provision:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE

Disciplinary Sector:

Hydraulics

Language:

English

Grouping type:

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

VALERIO Giulia Professor

PILOTTI Marco Collaborator

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Hours of individual study:

135

A firm background in hydraulics or fluid mechanics is required, along with
good knowledge of differential calculus

Educational Goals

The professionality of civil and environmental engineers is almost
inevitably involved in problems where water plays a leading role. This
course will concentrate on some of these problems.
From a methodological point of view, traditional lectures will alternate
with laboratory and on-field survey, used as a way to get deeper physical
insight on the problems. Because of the inherent nonlinearities in the
governing equations, students will be led to implement simple numerical
algorithms to solve some of the presented problems.

Content

The course mainly deals with the issues of free surface flows, both in prismatic and natural riverbeds, in steady and unsteady motion. Issues of diffusion and dispersion, modeling of water quality and physical limnology are also dealt with.
The course takes advantage of a wide range of numerical classworks directed to practical problems, during which autonomous calculation tools for the solution of complex problems are developed.

Extended Syllabus

Open channel Hydraulics: basics, uniform flow, energy equation, open channel profiles, specific force,
passage through a contraction and over a sill. Discussion of profiles and
numerical methods for their computation: direct and standard step.
Currents with decreasing and increasing discharge. Practical training in
the field on the selection of the roughness coefficient
Stream gauging: different methodology and practice in the laboratory:
reproduction of open channel profiles and discharge gauging by
propellers and saline concentration methods.
De Saint Venant equations in 1 and 2 dimensions. Unsteady flow. Method of characteristics.
Kinematic and Parabolic models. Analysis of methods for dam break wave analysis. Numerical methods; pollutant diffusion and dispersion in free surface flows. Introduction to Physical Limnology; lake thermal balance; lake Pollution and eutrophication

Recommended Bibliography

The material covering the issues presented during the course is provided on the teachers web-page
(see http://www.ing.unibs.it/hydraulics/). As a reference, the following books provide a comprehensive support of
the topics taught during the course:
-Sturm T. W., Open channel Hydraulics, Mc Graw Hill
-Chow V.T., Open Channel Hydraulics Mc Graw Hill, New York, 1959
-Henderson, F.M Open Channel Flow, MacMillan Publishing Inc., New York, 1966.
-Chapra, S. C. Surface Water Quality Modeling, McGraw Hill, 1997.
-Fischer H.B., Koh J., List J., Imberger J., Brooks H., Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters, Academic Press, New York, 1988

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The concepts are mostly presented orally, using multimedia support when they can be useful to a better understanding of the topics. There are also several classworks where the students have to solve numerically in the Matlab environment some problems related to the free surface flows. Finally, one field survey is usually organized to show some important hydraulic structures of the Brescia province.

Assessment Methods

The final examination consists in a written section, where the student has to numerically solve a steady profile, and in an oral section. The oral section will start from the discussion of the project made by the student/group of students and then by the discussion of 3 questions regarding the theoretical subjects de eloped during the course.

Assessment:

Final Mark

Programme of Educational Activities

Start date of teaching period:

Monday, February 17, 2020

End date of teaching period:

Friday, June 5, 2020

Other Information

The teacher homepage
http://hydraulics.unibs.it/hydraulics/attivita-didattica/
contains reference to some educational material useful for the study of the lessons, as well as the texts of the written exams and some Thesis assigned by the teacher over the last years.