Teaching Assistant: Mr. Ayobamidele (Dele) Akinnola
Room: EN 2054
Tel: 737-8920
Email: akinnola@engr.mun.ca
Lectures: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:00 - 9:50 a.m. in room EN 2050
Tutorials: Tuesday, 1:00 - 1:50 p.m. in room EN 2050
Midterm Exams: 30 May 2005 and 4 July 2005
Office Hours: Monday, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Introduction to Hydrology, 2003 and 1996
by Warren Viessman, Jr. and Gary L. Lewis
Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis, 1992 and 1988
by Philip B. Bedient and Wayne C. Huber
Hydrology for Engineers, 1982
by Ray Linsley, Max Kohler and Joseph Paulhus
Marking Scheme:
Outline of Topics
1. Engineering hydrology and hydrologic problems
2. Climate and weather
3. Hydrologic cycle, global water, human influences, hydrologic budget at the catchment scale, water balance calculations, reservoir storage requirements
4. Precipitation and measurement, rain gauge network design, consistency of records, areal precipitation estimation
5. Infiltration and theory, Horton's equation, phi index, SCS method, factors affecting infiltration
6. Evaporation and evapotranspiration and estimation, pan-evaportation, Penman's equation
7. Catchment characteristics, area, length, slope, runoff coefficients, land use and cover, streamflow and hydrographs
8. Hydrologic design, data requirements, analysis and design for floods, low flows, average flows
9. Characteristics and analysis of hydrological data, probability concepts, flood, draught, rainfall frequency analysis, i-d-f- curves
10. Unit hydrograph theory, derivation and application of unit hydrographs
11. Theory and application of river and reservoir routing
12. Hydrologic design of storm sewer systems, rational methods, design storms
Tutorial periods will be used for learning SewerCad and WaterCad