Environmental Engineering - Form and Process in Alluvial Channels
CIVL 4359 Form and Process in Alluvial Channels
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course will consider various aspects of fluvial geomorphology from a civil engineering point-of-view. This will include discussion of hydraulic resistance based on quantitative estimates of channel roughness, regime concepts for artificial and natural rivers, uses of boundary shear stress and unit stream power in bed-load estimations, the hydraulics and statistics of suspended sediment, numerical versus physical modelling, and a review of case histories of responses of rivers to human activity. The hydraulics of fish habitat assessment is also considered. The application of HEC RAS to a bridged brook is done as a group project.
FORMAT:
PREREQUISITES:
CIVL 3300.03 and
CIVL 3310.03 (minimum),
CIVL 4350.03 (preferable)
CROSS-LISTING:
CIVL 6159.03
EXCLUSIONS:
CIVL 6159.03