CIVL 6930 Mathematical Hydrology

 

Instructor:      Dr. Ahmad Sana

                        Room No. 1014C

                        Ext. 2524

                        Email: [email protected]

 

Office hours: Monday           8:15-9:50,        Tuesday           8:15-9:50

                                                Or any time by appointment

 

Lecture:          Saturday 16:30 to 18:05           (CMT/C16)

Tutorial:          Monday 16:30 to 17:20            (CMT/C11)

 

Laboratory:    Tutorial hours would be utilized for design and experiments. Please bring your textbook and calculator every time you come to attend the tutorial. For each tutorial exercise, a written letter report is required to get full consideration.

 

Evaluation:

Assignments                                                                             10%

Laboratory reports                                                                   15%

Design projects                                                                         15%

One mid-term examination                                                        20%

One final examination                                                                40%

 

Explanation of grading system:

 

Assignments (10%): Whenever an assignment is given, you will have one week to complete it and submit. Group participation in solving an assignment problem is encouraged, however, you must turn in your own assignment. Late assignments would be accepted only with prior approval from the instructor.

 

Laboratory reports (15%): There will be approximately 5 laboratory experiments. The reports must be written in the form of a brief report, the format of which would be explained in the class.

 

Design projects (15%): There will be approximately 5 design projects throughout the semester. These projects will be presented in the form of a letter from a client to an engineering company that you work for. You will be expected to develop a design solution to the client’s problem, and then respond to the client with a letter report.

 

Mid-term examination (20%): This will be an open books, open notes examination, covering all the theory, problems, laboratory experiments and design projects completed prior to it.

 

Final examination (40%): The final examination would cover the whole course contents completed prior to it and it would also be an open-book and open notes type.

 

Extra credit (up to 5%): The students may receive up to 5% of their grade in extra credit by attending seminars and professional society meetings held in the civil engineering department or relevant conferences.

 

 

 

Course Outline

 

1. Review of basic terminology and hydrologic processes
2. Hydrologic processes; components of the hydrologic cycle
3. Surface water; hydrographs, abstractions, unit hydrographs
4. Lumped flow routing; level pool routing, Muskingum method
5. Distributed flow routing; Saint-Venant equations and finite difference approximations
6. Hydrologic statistics; fitting a probability distribution
7. Frequency analysis; return period, frequency factors, probability plotting
8. Hydrologic design; design scale, uncertainty, risk analysis

 

 

Textbooks:

1. Applied Hydrology by V.T. Chow, D.R. Maidment and L.W. Mays
2. Handouts