421-423 Water Quality and River Management

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

421-320 Applied Hydraulics

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

At the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to describe the nature of steamflow, fluvial processes and fluvial morphology and understand management issues relating to rivers and flood plains.

Topics covered include: Streamflow measurement and characteristics, water surface modelling in irregular channels, river channel morphology, fluvial processes, initiation of sediment motion, sediment transport, channel stability, modelling of river channel changes, water quality, advection, diffusion and dispersion processes sources and sinks, mass balance equations, solution of contaminant transport equations, the Streeter-Phelps equation, water quality characteristics of reservoirs.

Assessment

One written examination not exceeding three-hours at the end of the Semester (85%) Assignments (15%)