Engineering Hydrology - 4EUS3HYI

Number of hours
- Lectures 28.0
- Projects -
- Tutorials 16.0
- Internship -
- Laboratory works 16.0
ECTS
ECTS 5.0

Goal(s)

Characterise a catchment based on hydro-meteorological time series
Become familiar with the principles of data analysis and data screening in hydrology.
Acquire the necessary concepts for the design of hydraulic works aimed either at risk protection against floods or droughts, or at water resources storage and management.
Master the necessary steps to reproduce the hydrological behaviour of a natural watershed by choosing the most appropriate tools.

Responsible(s)

Louise CROCHEMORE

Content(s)

This module is divided in four parts:
1. Engineering hydrology: water cycle, hydrological budget and hydrological regimes. Elements of metrology. Runoff generation: loss or production function and Unit Hydrograph or transfer function approach.
2. Statistical hydrology: basics of statistics for hydrology, model fitting techniques on a data sample and hypothesis testing. Stochastic relations between variables: simple and multiple linear correlation. Data screening and error detection.
3. Hydrological prediction and hydraulic works design: return period, design rainfall and design discharge. Main methods for extreme events prediction and for hydrological design at different scales: hydraulic works, natural watersheds, urban and anthropic watershed.
4. Hydrological modelling: main types of existing hydrological models and modeling steps.
Three project-based learning assignments will be devoted to synthesize and link the themes provided by this module.

Prerequisites

Probability and statistics (Mathematics for Engineers module at S1)

Test

Session 1
Continuous assessment (CC1) : 50% - Project reports (BE)
Final exam (ET1) : 50% - 2h individual written examination (x2)

Session 2
Continous assessment (CC2): no resit for continuous assessment, session 1 assessment retained (CC1=CC2)
Final exam (ET2) : 2h individual written examination (ET2) to replace session 1 assessment (ET1)

The exam may be taken in french or in english