2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
CIVE3401 Water Engineering III
10 creditsClass Size: 130
Module manager: Dr. Andrew Sleigh
Email: p.a.sleigh@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2015/16
Pre-requisites
| CIVE1410 | Water Engineering I |
| CIVE2405 | Water Engineering II |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Objectives
To develop the concepts of integrated river management and in particular to examine the use of numerical methods in open channel flow.Syllabus
- River management: examine the drivers in river management and how to address them in an integrated manner with particular focus on flood risk management (2 lectures).
- Rapidly Varying Flow: specific energy and its application (2 lectures).
- Steady State Backwater Curves: The development of the elementary backwater curves taught in the second year to a full treatment of all the curves that can occur ie M, S, A, H and C curves (2 lectures).
- Methods of integrating the Backwater function: The direct and standard step methods for integrating the backwater function in prismoidal and natural channels (2 lectures).
- Flood Routing: hydrologic methods of flood routing in rivers: the kinematic and diffusion wave method, the Muskingum methos and the Muskingum-Cunge method. (2 lectures)
- The development of the St. Venant equations in open channel flow (2 lectures)
- Computational River Modelling: the solution of the equations by the method of characteristics and the explicit finite difference method. (2 lectures)
- The implementation of the St. Venant equations in industry-standard software. (2 lectures)
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Laboratory | 1 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Consultation | 5 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
| Lecture | 20 | 1.00 | 20.00 |
| Tutorial | 6 | 1.00 | 6.00 |
| Private study hours | 66.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 34.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100.00 | ||
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Students attend a laboratory and submit a piece of coursework based upon it. Progress is monitored through this.Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Report | Laboratory report | 20.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 20.00 | |
The laboratory class is held in the fluid mechanics basement lab (entrance down the steps adjacent to the side entrance door at the west end of the School). The laboratory class uses the 20m long flume to set up a backwater curve complete with a hydraulic jump. Water depths are made along the length of the channel then used to plot the curve. This is then compared with the curve calculated from the backwater function. After the experiment a report will be written for assessment. Attendance at the laboratory class is not compulsory; however non-attendance will result in no marks being awarded.
Exams
| Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
| Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 2 hr 00 mins | 80.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 80.00 | |
External Resit 100% University Exam
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 15/01/2016
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