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| GCIV2035-1 | Environmental hydrodynamics
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Benjamin Dewals |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| This course addresses transient free surface flow by focusing on overall methods of managing the hydrographic basin. In also addresses the problems of the causes and increase in flooding.
The course also provides an introduction to calculation methods and to the integrated management techniques applied to catchment areas (whether or not in urban areas), both on the qualitative and quantitative levels.
It also deals with more complex and specialised subjects, such as the analysis of turbulence and mathematical models currently available to model it, the transport of sediments by water courses and the consequences of equipment malfunction (such as a burst dam), with risk analysis. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The main goal of the course is, while providing a continuity and close links with the other courses of fluid mechanics proposed to civil engineers students, to continue the single and critical study of the notions of hydrology and free surface hydrodynamics, initiated in the course of Applied Hydraulics for steady flows, with transient free surface notions. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Course of Applied Hydraulics (steady free surface flows) |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Reflection practical exercises, based on real cases study, using moderns' means for the resolution of problems classically met in the field of transient free surface flows. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is made of sessions with a theoretical ex cathedra lecture and a practical session consisting in a guided exercise and the redaction of an individual report at the end of the session or after several thematic sessions. In the latter case, students will be invited to summarize orally the problem to be solved, their results and conclusions. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Complete typed out notes are available |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Handling in practical works reports is obligatory and leads to an individual mark.
A non exempting examination is organized on theoretical and practical matters already studied at the middle of the second semester.
An examination is organized for the whole of the course during the June or September examination period. It counts for a theoretical (oral) and exercises (written) parts.
The theoretical examinations are organized without any support while the practical examinations can be solved using the course support.
The final mark results from a balance between the partial marks. |
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Contacts :
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| Prof. Benjamin Dewals
Hydrologie, Hydrodynamique Appliquée et Constructions Hydrauliques (HACH)
Institut de Mécanique et Génie Civil - Build. B52/3
Chemin des Chevreuils, 1
B-4000 Liège
Phone : 04/366.92.83
b.dewals@ulg.ac.be (http://www.hach.ulg.ac.be/) |
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