Vienna University of Technology
River
Engineering
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Sunday 31 July 2022
Institute of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering
The River Rhine near Karlsruhe, showing the old course, and "improved" straightened path
And
similarly, closer to home, our own Danube
Amazon River
Free water jet, by Leonardo da Vinci, the world's best-known hydraulic engineer
River Adda, Northern Italy
Staff
Lecturer: Dr John Fenton, JohnDFenton@gmail.com
Mobile: +43 664 7313 1035
The course will deal largely with flows and waves in
streams using one-dimensional models, and the accompanying
mathematical and computational descriptions and methods.
Individual topics will be a selection from
- Resistance in streams
- The effects of obstacles on streams
- Reservoir routing
- The one-dimensional long wave equations
- Unsteady flow - flood routing
- Steady gradually-varied non-uniform flow
- Measurements - Hydrography/Hydrometry
Lecture Notes
Full size, colour overhead slides
Reduced size, Black &White, suitable for printing
Occasionally lectures will refer to some parts of my Numerical Methods lecture notes:
Tutorial sheets
The worked solutions have all been produced using mathematical software. I thought it was better to do that so that students can see the working. Spreadsheets never really explain much.
Tutorial sheet 1, Answer sheet 1
Tutorial sheet 2, answers to be found in lecture notes or they are given on the question sheet.
Tutorial Sheet 3, Answer sheet 3
Tutorial Sheet 4, solution trivially included
Tutorial sheet 5, Answer sheet 5
Tutorial sheet 6, Answer sheet 6
Lectures
Mondays 15:00-17:30, Seminar Room AD 03-1 AD 03-09, on
the third floor.
Examination
I have not yet decided how this will be done, whether
written or oral
Background
A Glossary of Terms in Hydraulic Engineering - contains translations between English-German-Spanish-Italian-French-Portuguese. They are not sorted alphabetically, so it is probably best to use the search facility (CTL F). If you see any errors in German or English, please tell me. Dr Freddy Flórez has corrected the Spanish!
Fluid Mechanics, River Hydraulics, and Floods - An introductory lecture I gave to a group of students in Melbourne in February 2011, with reference to the floods that happened in Australia at that time - and caused my mother and I to evacuate first from the farm and then from the town.
Tutorial sheets & worked solutions
Resources
World-wide
Kumar
Links to Hydrology Resources
Visual resources
Prof. Hubert Chanson's Gallery
of Photographs
IAHR Media
Library - photographs and videos
Photographs of rivers
Photographs of rivers in Indonesia
Software packages
HEC-RAS - US Army freeware for numerical solution of river problems. We will be able to solve problems much more simply.
Catchment Modelling Toolkit- Australian freeware for solution of basin problems
Crocodile - usually neglected by theory ...
Devil's Bridge, River Serchio, Tuscany
Snowy River, Australia, with willows, introduced species, growth out of control
Upstream pier profile of Pont de la Concorde, Montréal with sharp upstream edge to break ice.
Maintained and authorised by:
John Fenton
Email: JohnDFenton@gmail.com