Give the concepts necessary to use one and two dimensional unsteady flood propagation models. The last part of the course is dedicated to the use of ORSADEM software
Course Prerequisites
The Course of deals with theoretical and application matters chiefly referred to the Teaching Fields of : Hydraulic and Fluid Mechanics .It is useful for the students a preliminary frequency of the teaching Matters above mentioned, for an easier understanding of the object of the Course
Teaching Methods
Oral and practical lessons
Assessment Methods
The final exam is Oral and is aimed at ascertaining the achievement of the educational objectives of teaching. The subject of the examination are the contents of the reference texts, the contents of the lectures and the lessons carried out in the computer lab
Texts
V.T. Chow 1959 Open Channel Hydraulics Mac Graw Hill Book , New York
J.A. Cunge, F.M. Holly, & A.Vervey, Practical aspects of Computational River Hydraulics. 1980.
Pitman Publ. Inc, London
K. Mahmood , V.Yevjevich 1975. Unsteady flow in open channel, Water Resources publications, Colorado, 1975.
V.T. Chow 1959 Open Channel Hydraulics Mac Graw Hill Book , New York
J.A. Cunge, F.M. Holly, & A.Vervey, Practical aspects of Computational River Hydraulics. 1980.
Pitman Publ. Inc, London
K. Mahmood , V.Yevjevich 1975. Unsteady flow in open channel, Water Resources publications, Colorado, 1975.
H. Chanson 2004 The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction, Second Edition,
Elsevier Oxford
T.W. Sturm. 2001. Open Channel Hydraulics, Mc Graw Hill, Singapore
ORSADEM reference manual
Slides of the course ( see Kiro: http://kiro2014.unipv.it/idcd/)
Contents
Introduction: steady and unsteady flow, uniform and varied flow, pipe flow vs open channel flow
De Sant Venant equations (1d), divergent and non divergent form, supplementary terms and coefficients
Initial and boundary conditions
Discontinuous solutions: Bores
Simple wave, Dam break waves
Italian Regulations on Dam safety
Simplified channel flow equations
Numerical solution of the unsteady flow equations (method of characteristics, explicit and implicit
