Prerequisites: 101-0247-01L Hydraulic Engineering II or equivalent course.
Abstract
The lecture focuses on selected topics in hydraulic engineering, water management and aquatic ecology relating to hydropower and flood protection projects.
Learning objective
to deepen knowledge on special aspects in hydraulic engineering and to understand the procedures and the planning sequence of hydropower projects
Content
Different selected topics in hydraulic engineering will be focused on, e.g. dam safety, possible problems at reservoirs like sedimentation or natural hazards by impulse waves, the hydraulics of river flows, spillways and intake structures at dams and weirs, hydropower and ecology like fish-ecological aspects at low-head hydropower plants and eco-hydraulics like flow-vegetation interaction. Another focus will be put on typical approaches and procedures in the planning process of hydropower projects.
Lecture notes
Lecture notes/handouts will be available online.
Literature
is specified in the lecture.
Prerequisites / Notice
External speakers will present current topics and projects in Switzerland and abroad.
