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Course Outline: CHAPTER ONE (0.5 Week)

This document outlines a hydrology course at Arbaminch University. The course covers various topics related to hydrologic cycles including precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff, and flood management. It is divided into 11 chapters that will be taught over a semester. Evaluation is based on continuous assessment during the semester and a final exam. The course aims to help students understand key hydrologic processes and principles.

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Course Outline: CHAPTER ONE (0.5 Week)

This document outlines a hydrology course at Arbaminch University. The course covers various topics related to hydrologic cycles including precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, runoff, and flood management. It is divided into 11 chapters that will be taught over a semester. Evaluation is based on continuous assessment during the semester and a final exam. The course aims to help students understand key hydrologic processes and principles.

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HYDRAULIC AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Course Name: Hydrology Target group: G3C-A


Course Code: CENG-3411 Instructor: Shishay G.
Academic Year: 2012/2013 Semester: I
Prerequisite: Hydraulics II

Course Outline
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
 Understand the various phases of hydrologic cycles, Precipitation, Evaporation,
Infiltration, Overland and Stream flow.
 Understand the relationship between storm intensity, duration and frequency
relationships.
 Understand the impact that urban areas, and hardened surfaces, have on the
overland and stream flow phases of the hydrologic cycle, the how this affects the
time of concentration of storms.
 Understand the principles of flood management.
 Understand the concept of interception and depression storage
 Understand basic reservoir sizing

COURSE CONTENTS:

CHAPTER ONE (0.5 week)


1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1. Definition
1.2. Hydrologic cycle
1.3. Water budget/ balance equation
CHAPTER TWO (1.5 week)
2.0 PRECIPITATION
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Forms of precipitation
2.3 Types of precipitation
2.4 Measurement of precipitation
2.5 Estimating missing data
2.6 Consistency of rainfall data
2.7 Presentation of precipitation data
2.8 Mean aerial rainfall
2.9 Depth- area duration (DAD) curve
CHAPTER THREE (1 week)
3.0 EVAPORATION AND EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
3.1 Definition
3.2 The process of Evaporation
3.3 Factors affecting evaporation
3.4 Estimation of evaporation
3.5 Evapotranspiration (consumptive use) and its estimation

CHAPTER FOUR (1 week)


4.0 INFILITRATION
4.1 Infiltration process
4.2 Factors affecting infiltration
4.3 Infiltration measurement
4.4 Infiltration indices
4.5 Mass curve methods
CHAPTER FIVE (1 week)
5.0 RUNOFF
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Components of runoff
5.3 Hydrograph
5.4 Factors affecting runoff
5.5 Methods of runoff computations
CHAPTER SIX (3 weeks)
6.0 RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIP
6.1 Introduction to hydrological models
6.2 Rational methods
6.3 SCS curve number method
6.4 Time-Area method
6.5 Stream flow hydrograph
6.6 The unit hydrograph
CHAPTER SEVEN (1.5 weeks)
7.0 FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
7.1 General
7.2 Flow frequency
7.3 Flood probability
7.4 Precipitation probability
7.5 Low flow analysis
7.6 Risk, reliability and safety factors
CHAPTER EIGHT (3 weeks)
8.0 FLOOD ROUTING AND HYDROLOGY OF UNGAUGED CATCHMENTS
8.1 Flood routing
8.1.1 General
8.1.2 Simple non-storage routing
8.1.3 Storage routing
8.1.4 Reservoir or level pool routing
8.1.5 Channel routing
8.2 Hydrology of ungauged catchments
8.2.1 Synthetic unit hydrograph (UH)
8.2.2 Snyder’s method
8.2.3 Dimensionless unit hydrograph
8.2.4 Extrapolation of flow data to ungauged sites
CHAPTER NINE (1.5 weeks)
9.0 RESERVOIR CAPACITY DETERMINATION
9.1 Types of reservoirs
9.2 Reservoir capacity determination
9.3 Reservoirs and sediments

CHAPTER TEN (1 week)


10.0 STREAM FLOW MEASUREMENTS (STREAM GAUGING)
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Selection of stream sites
10.3 Measurements of stage
10.4 Measurements of discharge
10.5 Stage-discharge relationship
CHAPTER ELEVEN(1 week)
11.0 INTRODUCTION TO URBAN HYDROLOGY
11.1 Catchment response modifications
11.2 Urban development planning
11.3 Drainage design
11.4 The transport and road research laboratory (TRRL)

References:

 Subramanya, K. (1994), Engineering Hydrology 2nd ed., Tata McGraw-Hill


 Shaw, E.M. (1994) Hydrology in Practice, 3rd ed., Chapman & Hall
 Linsley, R.K (1982), Hydrology for Engineers, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill
 Chow, V.T. (1964), Hand book of Applied Hydrology, McGraw-Hill
 K.C. Patra hydrology and water resources engineering
 Any journals and research papers on hydrology
 Any related books

Tentative
Method of evaluation:
Continues assessment ………………..50%
Final exam……………………………..50%

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