COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN RIVERS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ENV 5056 NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN RIVERS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Environmental Engineering
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

To provide students with an advanced level of understanding for modeling water quality in rivers with particular reference to the fundamentals of flow and contaminant transport in rivers and to provide the details of the commonly used modeling software including but not limited to QUAL2K, CE-QUAL-RIV1 and MIKE group of models.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows the concept of mathematical modelling
2   Knows fundamentals of flow modeling in rivers
3   Knows fundamentals of contaminant transport in rivers
4   Knows numerical solution methods used in river water quality modeling
5   Knows and uses some well known water quality models.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to flow and contaminant transport modeling in river systems
2 Fundamentals of flow hydraulics in rivers systems
3 Fundamentals of contaminant transport in river systems
4 Derivation of governing equations of flow and contaminant transport
5 Constituent reactions and interrelationships
6 Dimensionality aspects and typical river models
7 Fundamentals of numerical solution procedures
8 Numerical solution algorithms for flow equation
9 Numerical solution algorithms for contaminant transport equation
10 Mid-term exam
11 Software packages - 1
12 Software packages - 2
13 Software packages - 3
14 A complete modeling task from start to finish

Recomended or Required Reading

Surface Water Quality Modeling
Steven C. Chapra
Mc Graw-Hill, New York, 1997.
ISBN: 0-07-011364-5

Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters
Hugo B. Fischer, E. John List, Robert C. Y. Koh, Jorg Imberger, Norman H. Brooks
Academic Pres, San Diego, 1979
ISBN: 0-12-258150-4

Transport Phenomena
R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, Edwin N. Lightfoot
John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1960
ISBN: 0-471-07392 X

Open Channel Hydraulics
Ven T. Chow
McGraw Hill Inc., New Yok, 1988
ISBN: 07-010776-9

Handbook of Hydrology
David R. Maidment (ed.)
McGraw Hill Inc., New York, 1993.
ISBN: 0-07-039732-5

Watershed Models
Vijah P. Singh and Donald K. Frevert (eds.)
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2006
ISBN: 0-8493-3609-0

Environmental Modeling. Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Water, Air, and Soil
Jerald L. Schnoor
Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1996
ISBN: 0-471-12436-2

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture presentations and applications

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE + PRJ/2 * 0.50 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE + PRJ/2 * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Orhan GUNDUZ
Department of Environmental Engineering
Room: A-115
Phone: 3017141
Fax: 4531143
E-mail: orhan.gunduz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Mondays 3-4

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 0,5 7
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Design Project 1 30 30
Midterm 1 2,5 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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