CV 310 - Water Resources Engineering

• Hydrology
  • Calculate infiltration rates using basic engineering formulas
  • Use an intensity-duration-frequency curve to characterize an observed rainfall or develop a design rainfall depth
  • Calculate runoff using NRCS hydrology and the rational formula
• Closed Channel Hydraulics
  • Calculate flow through pipes factoring with minor losses and diameter changes using the General Energy equation and the Hazen-Williams and Darcy-Weisbach equations
  • Determine operating point of a pumping system with simply networked discharge piping and multiple pumps
  • Calculate flow in multi-path pipeline system using energy loss and continuity equations
  • Apply the impulse-momentum principle to compute thrust at fittings
• Open Channel Hydraulics
  • Calculate uniform, steady state flow in open channels including circular and trapezoidal channel shapes using the Manning equation
  • Utilize a specific energy and force theory to analyze critical depth and hydraulic jumps
  • Calculate flow through standard open channel hydraulic control structures such as weirs and flumes
  • Name flow profiles in open channels with gradually varied flow
  • Calculate flow profiles in open channels with gradually varied flow
  • Relate flow depth to rate in standard open channel hydraulic control structures such as weirs and flumes
• Groundwater
  • Apply Darcy’s Law to compute flow rate in an aquifer in one-dimensional and radial conditions
  • Use a pump test and groundwater flow formulas to determine the hydraulic conductivity of a soil
  • Apply image well theory to assess the impacts of recharge and barrier boundaries

• Ability to apply the general energy equation to the solution of hydraulics problems
• Ability to apply Manning’s equation to the solution of steady, uniform flow problems in open channels
• Familiarity with elementary probability and statistics
• Ability to solve ordinary differential equations

• Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, infiltration, precipitation, time of concentration, NRCS hydrology, rational method
• Closed channel hydraulics: General Energy equation, Darcy-Weisbach equation, Hazen-Williams equation, minor losses, simple networks, multi-path network analysis, pumping system design, impulse-momentum equation
• Open channel hydraulics: Manning’s equation, steady-uniform flow, supercritical and subcritical flow, gradually varied flow profiles, rapidly varied flow, hydraulic jumps, hydraulic control structures
• Storm water management systems: storage routing, storm sewer design
• Groundwater: Darcy’s law, steady and unsteady 1-D and radial flow in confined and unconfined aquifers, image well theory

• Storm water hydrographs
• Infiltration and soil properties
• Storage routing
• Multipath flow
• Pipe networks
• Determination of Manning’s n
• Flow profiles, gradually and rapidly varied flow
• Steady-state, one-dimensional flow in groundwater
• Radial groundwater flow
• Storm water collection system design