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421-423 Water Quality & River Management | |
Credit Points | 7.14 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Dr I O'Neill |
Prerequisites | 421-320 Applied Hydraulics. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | 24 lectures and 12 practice classes |
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 (85%). Assignments (15%). |
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