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To understand the major concepts used in flood risk analysis
To learn characterizing a flood
To learn estimating design floods
To learn making cost-benefit analysis
To learn using an unsteady hydraulic model
Definition of hazard, vulnerability, flood risk, flood disaster
Characterization of floods (fluvial, coastal, pluvial, structural failure/overtopping floods)
Flood hazard assessment (magnitude (intensity) and associated exceeding probability)
Vulnerability analysis
Methods for flood mitigation
Flood mitigation economics
1 oral presentation : description of a major flood of the students native countries (Where? When? Why? How? How much? Who? When?)
2 projects : flood design and cost-benefit analysis (application to the Villerest dam on the Loire River) and hydraulic flood propagation (application of HEC-RAS to the the Loire River)
Engineering hydrology and River dynamics
1st session
Continuous assessment (CC) : oral presentation + project-based learning assignment
Final exam (CT) : 1 hour written exam
2nd session
Another written exam will replace the first one (CT). No retake for CC.
Course Unit assessment = ER 30% + EN 70%
The exam is given in english only 
The course exists in the following branches:
)Course ID : WEU3FPM6
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Date of update February 8, 2017
