CVE 3701 - Principles of Water Resources Engineering

• Groundwater
  • Analyze piezometer readings to determine flow direction and gradient
  • 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 an aquifer
  • Design a dewatering system for a construction excavation
• Hydrology
  • Compute design time of concentration for a catchment
  • Use an intensity-duration-frequency curve to characterize an observed rainfall or develop a design rainfall depth or intensity
  • Apply a standard rainfall distribution to generate a design hyetograph
  • Calculate infiltration rates using basic engineering formulas
  • Calculate runoff in a watershed using NRCS hydrology and the rational formula
  • Design a detention facility to meet a desired peak discharge rate or rates utilizing level pool routing
  • Design green stormwater management practices to meet sustainability goals
• Closed channel hydraulics
  • Determine flow rate and head loss in a simply networked piping system using energy loss and continuity equations
  • Formulate a system curve for a simply networked piping system considering minor losses and diameter changes using the General Energy equation and the Hazen-Williams and Darcy-Weisbach equations
  • Determine flow rate and head loss in a basic multi-path pipeline system using energy loss and continuity equations
  • Select an appropriate pump or pumps for constant or variable speed pumping application with multiple pumps in parallel or in series
• Open channel hydraulics
  • Calculate uniform, steady state flow in prismatic open channels shapes (circular, trapezoidal, etc.) using the Manning equation
  • Develop depth-discharge curves for weirs and flumes for flow control or measurement
  • Utilize specific energy theory to determine critical depth, super- and subcritical flow, hydraulic jumps and drops, and identify related implications in the design of open channel facilities
  • Design vegetated channels to convey a specified design discharge without erosion using armoring and grade control/energy dissipating structures
  • Design culverts including assessment of roadway overtopping
• Stormwater collection system design
  • Devise a storm water collection system including pipes, manholes, inlets, and outfall
  • Calculate runoff to inlets and size storm sewers for a design storm
  • Determine stormwater inlets accounting for plugging, inlet bypass, and maximum allowable spread for a design storm
  • Design a longitudinal profile a storm sewer to satisfy minimum slope and cover requirements

• Familiarity with pump curves, system curves, operating points, and affinity laws
• Ability to apply the general energy equation to the solution of fluid mechanics problems
• Ability to apply Darcy-Weisbach, Hazen-Williams, and Manning’s equations to the solution of steady, uniform flow problems in closed and open channels
• Ability to compute minor head losses given a minor loss coefficient
• Ability to determine a centroid and hydrostatic pressure on a prismatic plane surface

• Sustainability issues in water resources engineering
• Groundwater: flow direction and gradient, Darcy’s law, steady and unsteady 1-D and radial flow in confined and unconfined aquifers, superposition of drawdown cones
• Hydrology: hydrologic cycle, precipitation IDF and DDF tables, design rainfall distributions, infiltration rate formulas, time of concentration, unit hydrographs, NRCS hydrology, rational method, level pool routing
• Closed channel hydraulics: General Energy equation, Darcy-Weisbach equation, Hazen-Williams equation, minor losses, simple networks, multi-path networks, pump operating curves, system curves, variable speed pumping, operating point, pumps in series and in parallel
• Open channel hydraulics: Manning’s equation, steady-uniform flow, supercritical and subcritical flow, hydraulic jumps and drops, flow control and/or measurement structures, tractive force, culvert analysis and design
• Storm collection system design: system horizontal and vertical layout, tributary areas, inlet capture and bypass, storm sewer sizing

• Groundwater 1-D flow
• Groundwater radial flow
• Stormwater hydrographs
• Infiltration
• Level pool routing
• Simple networks
• Manning’s equation
• Culverts
• Channel erosion and protection