CEE 3430 Engineering Hydrology

CEE 3430 Engineering Hydrology - Spring 2012
Utah State University

Instructor: David Tarboton, UWRL 103, ENGR 232, 797 3172, dtarb@usu.edu

Lectures: Monday, Wed, Fri 1:30 to 2:20, ENGR 302
Office Hours: Monday 12-1 pm, Fri 2:30-3:30 pm. Also most days immediately following lecture. You may send me email any time to ask a question or request a meeting outside these times. You may also access my calendar online to ascertain my availability.

Texts:

Mays, L. W., (2011), Ground and Surface Water Hydrology, John Wiley & Sons, 704 p. Errata.
Hydrologic Modeling System HEC-HMS Users Manual. Available online at http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-hms/documentation/HEC-HMS_Users_Manual_3.5.pdf.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of the course you should be able to apply the principles of hydrology to solve engineering hydrology design problems involving hydrologic modeling and analysis.

Basic material

Syllabus
Schedule
Canvas. You may use Canvas to ask questions (post a discussion items) and interact with me and other students in the class.

Lecture Material

1/9/12. Introduction, Objectives, Hydrologic Cycle, Water Balance
1/11/12. The Hydrologic Budget and Hydrologic Data
1/13/12. Groundwater properties
1/18/12. Groundwater vertical distribution
1/20/12. Groundwater drawdown and yield
1/23/12. Groundwater movement
1/25/12. Determining hydraulic conductivity
1/27/12. Anisotropy in aquifers
1/30/12. Confined aquifer storage and unsaturated flow intro
2/1/12. Unsaturated flow and steady groundwater flow
2/3/12. Hydrology in Action. Streamflow forecasting at the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center. Andy Wood. Development and Operations Hydrologist at Colorado Basin River Forecast Center.
2/6/12. Steady flow in unconfined aquifers
2/8/12. Steady radial flow to a well. Jagath Kaluarachchi
2/10/12. Steady radial flow to well in unconfined aquifer
2/13/12. Review
2/15/12. Test - Rules.
2/17/12. Surface Water Hydrology.
2/21/12. No Class. Presidents day and E-Week.
2/22/12. Precipitation
2/24/12. Evaporation
2/27/12. Infiltration
2/29/12. Surface Runoff and Hydrograph Components. David Rosenberg
3/2/12. Infiltration continued. Green-Ampt Spreadsheet
3/5/12. Unit Hydrographs. Examples spreadsheet
3/7/12. Synthetic Unit Hydrographs
3/9/12. S-Curves
3/19/12. Estimating Runoff using Curve Numbers
3/21/12. NRCS/SCS Dimensionless Unit Hydrograph. Example Spreadsheet.
3/23/12. Unit Hydrograph Examples
3/26/12. Reservoir Routing. Example. David Rosenberg
3/30/12. UH Recap. (Impromptu S Curve Example worked in Class)
4/2/12. Review for test 2
4/4/12. Test 2.
4/6/12. River routing and modeling. Example
4/9/12. Hec-HMS Lab (Meet in ENGR 307)
4/11/12. Test 2 return. Solution.
4/13/12. Further review of test 2 solution.
4/16/12. Streamflow measurement. Test 2 take home retake handed out.
4/18/12. Streamflow measurement lab. Slides from Travis Gibson. USGS Hydroacoustics web page.
4/20/12. HEC-HMS use.
4/23/12. Return test 2 retake
4/25/12. Review of Routing. Example
4/27/12. Practice Exam. Practice Exam Solution. Final 2011. Final 2011 Solution. 2011 to 2012 Crosswalk. There were differences in the way some material was covered between 2011 and 2012, due to the new text. Refer to this cross walk document when looking at 2011 questions to understand some of them in the context of what you learned in 2012.
4/30/12. Amendments to grading and option to skip final exam.

Homework

Homework 0. Information Sheet.
Homework 1. Introduction to Hydrology.
Homework 2. Groundwater properties.
Homework 3. Groundwater movement.
Homework 4. Groundwater and well hydraulics.
Homework 5. Introduction to Surface Water Hydrology and Precipitation.
Homework 6. Infiltration.
Homework 7. Surface Runoff
Homework 8. Hydrographs, Hydrologic Modeling and Routing. Step by Step Guidance on HEC HMS. Part 2 question 7 not required. Only one of the HEC HMS problems 1 or 4 or 6 is required.