Name | Prof. Dr. Roman Stocker |
Field | Groundwater and Hydromechanics |
Address | Institut für Umweltingenieurwiss. ETH Zürich, HIF D 93.1 Laura-Hezner-Weg 7 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
Telephone | +41 44 633 70 86 |
romanstocker@ethz.ch | |
URL | https://stockerlab.ethz.ch/ |
Department | Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering |
Relationship | Full Professor |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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101-0203-AAL | Hydraulics I Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement. Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit. | 5 credits | 11R | R. Stocker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract | The course teaches the basics of hydromechanics, relevant for civil and environemental engineers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning objective | Familiarization with the basics of hydromechanics of steady state flows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Content | Properties of water, hydrostatics, continuity, Euler equation of motion, Navier Stokes euqation, similarity, Bernoulli principle, momentum equation for finite volumes, potential flows, ideal fluids-real fluids, boundary layer, pipe flow, open channel flow, flow in porous media, flow measurements, demonstration experiments in the lecture hall and in the laboratory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lecture notes | Script and collection of problems available | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literature | Bollrich, Technische Hydromechanik 1, Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
101-0203-01L | Hydraulics I | 5 credits | 3V + 1U | R. Stocker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract | The course teaches the basics of hydromechanics, relevant for civil and environemental engineers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning objective | In the course "Hydraulics I", the competency of process understanding is taught, applied and examined. Furthermore system understanding and measurement methods are taught. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Content | Properties of water, hydrostatics, stability of floating bodies, continuity, Euler equation of motion, Navier-Stokes equations, similarity, Bernoulli principle, momentum equation for finite volumes, potential flows, ideal fluids vs. real fluids, boundary layer, pipe flow, open channel flow, flow measurements, demonstration experiments in the lecture hall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lecture notes | Script and collection of previous problems | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literature | Bollrich, Technische Hydromechanik 1, Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
102-0259-00L | Ecohydraulics and Habitat Modelling | 3 credits | 2G | R. Stocker, K.‑D. Jorde, L. G. Martins da Silva, A. Siviglia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract | At a time in which humans have significantly affected the natural environment and yet society increasingly values the many services of natural ecosystems, accounting for ecological processes in engineering design is a major contemporary challenge for environmental and civil engineers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning objective | This is the fundamental topic in ecohydraulics, the discipline that focuses on the consequences of fluid flow and related physical processes on the organisms that inhabit aquatic environments. While still a young science, ecohydraulics already endows the engineer with an overall understanding and quantitative tools to predict how physical processes shape habitat quality and quantity, enabling the analysis of different management options for natural and man-made water bodies in terms of their ecosystem consequences. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Content | This class will take a broad view of ecohydraulics and introduce students to key concepts in aquatic habitat modeling. Recognizing that an ecosystem is composed of diverse organisms with different seasonal habitat requirements across a range of scales, the class will focus on multiple representative groups of organisms, including fish, macroinvertebrates, plankton, and vegetation. The lectures will build on the students' knowledge of hydraulics, to give them both an appreciation for the dependence of organisms on their physical environment and a set of quantitative modeling approaches that they can take with them into engineering practice, in fields ranging from hydropower development and upgrade, to reservoir operation, river restoration, flood protection, water management and beyond. At the broadest scale, this class will contribute to the students' appreciation of the tight link between the natural and the built or impacted environment, and of the imperatives of considering both in the design process. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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102-0515-01L | Environmental Engineering Seminars ![]() ![]() | 3 credits | 3S | S. Sinclair, P. Burlando, I. Hajnsek, S. Hellweg, M. Maurer, P. Molnar, E. Morgenroth, C. Oberschelp, S. Pfister, E. Secchi, R. Stocker, J. Wang | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract | The course is organized in the form of seminars held by the students. Topics selected from the core disciplines of the curriculum (water resources, urban water engineering, material fluxes, waste technology, air polution, earth observation) are discussed in the class on the basis of scientific papers that are illustrated and critically reviewed by the students. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning objective | Learn about recent research results in environmental engineering and analyse practical applications in environmental engineering. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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