Hydrology and Water Resource Engineering

This module introduces students to theory and practice of engineering hydrology and how these are applied to water resource engineering.

Learning Outcomes
1.Recognize where and why Engineering Hydrology techniques are needed in civil engineering
2.Specify measurement systems for rainfall, streamflow and evaporation and calculate evaporation rates using the Penman method
3.Estimate single site flood frequencies and flood risks using Extreme Value Type 1 and lognormal assumptions and estimate associated standard errors of estimates
4.Analyse and interpret low flow data for the purposes of deciding the suitability of a water body as a source for water extraction or as a receiving water for an effluent
5.Perform back routing and forward routing of flow hydrographs through lakes and reservoirs in order to solve either flooding or water resources problems
6.Calculate flood hydrographs from given design rainfalls using the unit hydrograph method in order to contribute to the solution of a flood design question
7.Calculate drawdowns caused by specified pumping rates in an idealized aquifer and infer aquifer storativity and transmissivity values from pumping test data
8.Application of hydrological principles to water resource engineering
9.Undertake preliminary hydrological designs