CEE 3430 Engineering Hydrology

CEE 3430 Engineering Hydrology - Spring 2014
Utah State University

Instructor: David Tarboton, ENGR 230, 797 3172, dtarb@usu.edu

Lectures: Monday, Wed, Fri 2:00 to 2:50, ENGR 203
Office Hours: Monday 3-4 pm, Thurs 11 am - 12 noon. 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.

Teaching Assistant: Madeline Merck, madeline.merck@aggiemail.usu.edu
TA Office Hours: Wednesday 10 am to 11 am in ENGR 235.

Texts:

Mays, L. W., (2011), Ground and Surface Water Hydrology, John Wiley & Sons, 704 p. (We will only use Chapters 1-4 and 7-9 from this book. These chapters are available as a Wiley Custom Book for this class)
- Custom book Print version ISBN 9781119920403 (order through bookstore)
- Electronic version ISBN 9781119920403 (order at http://store.vitalsource.com/)
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

1/6/14. Introduction, Objectives, Hydrologic Cycle, Water Balance
1/8/14. The Hydrologic Budget and Hydrologic Data
1/10/14. Groundwater and Rock/Soil properties
1/13/14. Groundwater vertical distribution
1/15/14. Groundwater drawdown and yield
1/17/14. Groundwater movement
1/22/14. Determining Hydraulic Conductivity
1/24/14. Aquifer flow and anisotropy
1/27/14. General Groundwater flow
1/29/14. Unsaturated flow
1/31/14. Unsaturated flow continued
2/3/14. Steady flow in aquifers
2/5/14. Radial flow to wells
2/7/14. Test review
2/10/14. Test 1
2/12/14. Introduction to surface water hydrology
2/14/14. Precipitation
2/18/14. Design storms
2/19/14. Evaporation
2/21/14. Infiltration. Green-Ampt Spreadsheet
2/24/14. Infiltration Continued (Madeline Merck)
2/26/14. Surface Runoff and Hydrograph Components.
2/28/14. Baseflow separation and phi index. Prob8.2.3, Ex8.2.1
3/3/14. Unit Hydrographs. UHExamples.xlsx
3/5/14. Synthetic Unit Hydrographs.
3/7/14. S Curve and examples. Ex 8.2.1 Completed, Prob 8.5.3, Prob 8.2.4.
3/17/14. Unit Hydrograph Problem Solving
3/19/14. Stream Gauging. Meet at the Logan River Stream Gauge
3/21/14. Hydrologic Measurements and Data (Jeff Horsburgh)
3/24/14. NRCS Rainfall Runoff Calculations
3/26/14. SCS Dimensionless Unit Hydrograph. SCSUHExample.xlsx
3/28/14. Review
3/31/14. Test 2
4/1/14 and 4/3/14. No class due to Spring Runoff and ASCE conferences
4/7/14. Reservoir and River Routing. Example.
4/9/14. River Routing. Example 9.3.1
4/11/14. HEC-HMS Modeling. Meet in ENGR 307 Lab.
4/14/14. Dry Canyon Case Study Introduction. Refer also to Investigation and design reports in Canvas.
4/16/14. Spreadsheet with Linear Interpolation Macro. [Yes this does include a macro which is a potential security issue. I believe that this macro is safe]
4/18/14. Dry Canyon Case Study Design Hydrograph.
4/21/14. Dry Canyon Case Study Detention Basin Design. Actual design study HMS model.
4/23/14. Review. Dry Canyon Survey.
4/25/14. Wrap up.

Homework

Information Sheet. Due 1/10/14.
Homework 1. Introduction to Hydrology. Due 1/13/14.
Homework 2. Groundwater properties. Due 1/22/14.
Homework 3. Groundwater movement. Due 1/31/14.
Homework 4. Groundwater and well hydraulics. Due 2/7/14.
Homework 5. Introduction to Surface Water Hydrology and Precipitation Due 2/21/14.
Homework 6. Infiltration. Due 2/28/14.
Homework 7. Surface Runoff. Due 3/24/14.
Homework 8. SCS Curve Number and Hydrograph. Due 3/28/14.
Homework 9. Routing and Hydrologic Modeling. Due 4/14/14.
Homework 10. Logan Dry Canyon Case Study. Due 4/25/14. Refer also to Investigation and design reports in Canvas.

Previous Exams

Useful References

HEC-HMS