CVE424 URBAN HYDROLOGY AND HYDRAULICS
| Course Code: | 3640424 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Civil Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assist.Prof.Dr BERTUĞ AKINTUĞ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course objectives are:
-to give basic concepts of urban storm water collection systems
-to give information about Turkish codes and practices in storm water collection system design,
-to enable students to design a storm water collection system using real data.
-to enable students to design a retention pond
-to give them possibility to learn a commercial software and get practice by hands-on applications
Course Content
Urban climate. Hydrological consequences of urbanization. Intensity-duration-frequency curves. Design hyetograph. Rainfall losses: SCS method, Green and Ampt method. Rational method. Modified rational method. Detention basins, retention basins. Reservoir routing, hydraulic routing.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able:
-to calculate excess rainfall in an urban area
-to calculate runoff rates form an urban area
-to calculate desing rainfall
-to design a storm water collection system
-to design a retention pond and stage risers
-to work on a design project