Single-Course Engelsk 10 ECTS

Hydrology

Overall Course Objectives

Hydrology provides the disciplinary foundations for working on water systems, including water resources engineering and urban water systems. The course develops the technical skills to quantify all aspects of the hydrological cycle in the context of engineering design problems. Considering concrete water management problems, students will learn how water moves through the atmosphere, on the land surface and below the surface. The focus will be on understanding what processes take place, learning to apply commonly used mathematical formulations for quantifying these processes, learning to apply these formulations to solve engineering problems and understanding how the process formulations relate to observations taken in the field.
Group work assignments are a central part of the teaching as well as the evaluation and include minor field work elements. Students completing the course will have a good background for further work on water management, including such topics such as integrated water resources management, urban water management, flood control, managing climate change impacts on the water cycle, water supply, contaminated sites management etc.

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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

6 – 20 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12)

41102/10020/02002, 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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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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Registration

Language	Engelsk
Duration	13 weeks
Institute	Sustain
Place	DTU Lyngby Campus
Course code	12320
Course type	Bachelor
Semester start	Week 6
Semester end	Week 20
Days	Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12