Single-Course Engelsk 10 ECTS

Hydrology

Overall Course Objectives

The Hydrology course provides the foundation for understanding and managing water systems, including water resources engineering, urban water systems, and the design of infrastructure exposed to water. The course develops the technical skills needed to quantify key components of the hydrological cycle in engineering design contexts. Using concrete water management problems, students learn how water moves through the atmosphere, across land surfaces, through rivers and lakes, and below ground. The course focuses on understanding hydrological processes, applying commonly used mathematical formulations to quantify them, using these methods to solve engineering problems, and relating process descriptions to field observations.

Group assignments are a central part of both teaching and assessment and include minor fieldwork elements. Upon completion, students will have a strong foundation for further work in areas such as integrated water resources management, urban water management, flood control, climate change impacts on the water cycle, water supply, and contaminated site management.

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Describe the governing processes of the hydrologic cycle including exchange processes between atmosphere and soil surface, surface water runoff, and groundwater flow
Be able to formulate hydrological processes in mathematical terms
Solve problems related to water resources development including groundwater and surface water
Implement solutions to quantitative problems in Python scripts and Jupyter notebooks
Be able to integrate components of the hydrological cycle in a water resource assessment
Be able to work with and recognise the limitations of hydrological data.
To employ physical principles such as conservation of mass, energy or force balances to solve problems.
To describe and solve problems on transport phenomena.
Be able to employ mathematical and computational techniques to solve environmental engineering problems.

Introduction to hydrology and the hydrological cycle, water vapour, precipitation, extreme events, evaporation, evapotranspiration, climate, infiltration, Darcy’s law, basic principles of groundwater flow, regional groundwater and surface water, well hydraulics and capture zones, surface runoff and streamflow, hydrological modelling, snow

41102/10060/02002, Physics, environmental hydraulics and basic programming and data processing in Python / Jupyter notebooks

Lectures, tutorials, assignments

Roland Löwe

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Paul McLachlan

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Peter Steen Mikkelsen

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This course teaches the knowledge that forms the basis for many advanced courses in the urban water, water resources and the soil/groundwater contamination areas.

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