Department of Civil Engineering

Course Number CEng3154

Course Title Engineering Hydrology
Degree Program B.Sc. in Civil Engineering
Module Engineering Hydrology & Hydraulics
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5 CP
Lecture Tutorial Practice or Home study Total Hour
Course Weight
Laboratory
50 35 0 50 135

Understand how observations of the hydrologic cycle are made and how
Course Objectives they can be appropriately used.
Understand how to predict risks and reliabilities of flood control systems.

Students will be able to:

Competences to be
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competences
Course Description
Complete a water balance on a watershed.
Understand how to obtain process and use hydrologic data from various
sources.
Understand measurements techniques of the components of the hydrologic
cycle and the associated errors, advantages, and limitations.
Understand the significance of global and local precipitation patterns.
Use unit hydrographs for Engineering applications.
Apply standard river and reservoir routing techniques
Basic hydrological concepts: the hydrologic cycle.
Precipitation, Evaporation and sediment stream flow: factors affecting,
measurement.
Areal rainfall estimation, Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves, and runoff:
stage-discharge relations, rating curves.

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 Hydrographs, Unit hydrographs, S-hydrographs, Synthetic UH, flow-duration
curves.
Processing of hydrological data, frequency analysis of floods.
Flood routing through reservoirs and river channels.
Spillway design flood estimation.
Estimation of reservoir capacity.
Groundwater: occurrence and movement,
nation of ground water flow parameters, hydraulics of
wells.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 General
1.2 Meteorological data
1.2.1 Principle of data analysis
1.3 Hydrological data
1.3.1 Missing data and comparison with the precipitation data
CHAPTER TWO
RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIPS (APPLICATION OF DIFFERENT
RAINFALL RUNOFF MODELS)
2.1 HYDROLOGICAL MODELS
2.2 DETERMINISTIC HYDROLOGICAL MODELS
2.2.1 Empirical (Black Box) Models
2.2.2 Lumped Conceptual Models
2.2.3 Distributed Process Description Based Models
2.3 STOCHASTIC TIME SERIES MODELS
2.4 RATIONAL METHOD
2.4.1 Runoff Coefficient
Course outline 2.4.2 Rainfall intensity
2.4.3 Time of Concentration
2.5 SCS CURVE NUMBER METHOD
2.6 TIME-AREA METHOD
2.7 STREAM FLOW HYDROGRAPH
2.7.1 Hydrograph Analysis
2.7.2 Factors affecting flood hydrograph
2.7.3 Effective Rainfall
2.7.4 Separation of Base Flow and Runoff
2.8 THE UNIT HYDROGRAPH (UH)
2.8.1 Derivation of the Unit Hydrograph from single storms
2.8.2 Changing of the Duration of the UH
2.9 APPLICATIONS OF UNIT HYDROGRAPH
2.10 SYNTHETIC UNIT HYDROGRAPHS
2.10.1
2.11 UH FROM A COMPLEX STORM
2.12 INSTANTANEOUS UNIT HYDROGRAPH (IUH)
2.13 DIMENSIONLESS UNIT HYDROGRAPH

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2.14 HYDROLOGY OF UNGAUGED CATCHMENTS
CHAPTER THREE
FLOOD ROUTING
3.1 GENERAL
3.2 SIMPLE NON-STORAGE ROUTING
3.3 STORAGE ROUTING
3.4 RESERVOIR OR LEVEL POOL ROUTING
3.5 CHANNEL ROUTING
3.5.1 MUSKINGUM METHOD OF ROUTING
3.5.2 APPLICATION OF THE MUSKINGUM METHOD
3.6 HYDRAULIC ROUTING
CHAPTER FOUR
FREQUENCY ANALYSIS (PROBABILITY IN HYDROLOGY)
4.1 GENERAL
4.2 FLOW FREQUENCY
4.3 FLOOD PROBABILITY
4.3.1 Selection of Data
4.3.2 Plotting Positions
4.3.3 Theoretical Distributions of Floods
4.3.4 Extreme-
4.3.5
4.3.6 Confidence Limits for the fitted data
4.3.7 Log-Pearson Type III Distribution
4.4 REGIONAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
4.5 LOW FLOW ANALYSIS
4.5.1 Definitions and Basic Concepts
4.5.2 Low flow frequency analysis
4.5.3 Drought analysis

4.6 PRECIPITATION PROBABILITY

4.7 RISK, RELIABILITY AND SAFETY FACTOR
CHAPTER FIVE
STOCHASTIC HYDROLOGY
5.1 INTRODUCTION.
5.2 TIME SERIES
5.3 PROPERTIES OF TIME SERIES
5.4 ANALYSIS OF HYDROLOGIC TIME SERIES
5.4.1 Trend component
5.4.2 Periodic component
5.4.3 Stochastic component
5.5 TIME SERIES SYNTHESIS
5.6 SOME STOCHASTIC MODELS

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