COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HYDROLOGY OF FLOODS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5123 HYDROLOGY OF FLOODS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÜLAY ONUŞLUEL GÜL

Offered to

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES

Course Objective

The aims and objectives of the proposed course are to give a special emphasis on hydrology of floods, estimating flood design events and their use in the design and economic evaluation of the alternative flood mitigation projects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To describe the deterministic and probabilistic approaches used for flood mitigation
2   To describe the flood control methods
3   To establish the relationship between available data and methods
4   To use the flood mitigation, flood routing and flood control methods
5   To evaluate the economic aspects of flood control
6   To determine the constrains and application areas of methods
7   to decide on the appropriate approach considering purposes, available data and economic aspects

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 History of floods, Aims and objectives of Flood Mitigation, Description and classification of floods
3 Flood damages and methods of flood mitigation
4 Statistical Analysis of Floods: Floods and rain storms as extreme annual hydrologic events, A short review of probability distribution models
5 Risk concept and risk-based design of control structures
6 Single-station analysis of peak flows and extreme storms
7 Regional Analysis
8 Physical Hydrologic Models for Estimating Floods
9 Linear hydrologic systems and response function, Unithgraph derivation
10 Synthetic unithgraph procedures
11 Conceptual models, Estimating design floods via physical models
12 Flood Routing: Lumped system routing, Runge-Kutta method, Level pool routing, Hydrologic river routing, Linear reservoir model
13 Economic Aspects of Flood Control: Framework for economic assessment, Alternative structural and non-structural measures, Economic evaluation and multicriterion of alternative mitigation actions
14 ASSIGNMENT PRESENTATIONS

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Bayazıt, M. : Hidrolojik Modeller. ITÜ Inşaat Fakültesi Matbaası, Istanbul, 1998.
Supplementary Book(s): Bayazıt, M.; Önöz, B.: Taşkın ve Kuraklık Hidrolojisi. Nobel Basımevi, Istanbul, 2008.
References: Wanielista, M; Kersten, R; Eaglin, R.: Hydrology: Water Quantity and Quality Control, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Chow, W.T.; Maidment, D. R.; Mays, L. W.: Applied Hydrology. McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, in-term assignment, midterm exam and final exam

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1, LO2, and LO3 are evaluated with mid-term and final exams.
Assignments are highly related with LO3, LO5, LO6 and LO7.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülay Onuşluel Gül: gulay.onusluel@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced at the beginning of semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 2 30 60
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Midterm 1 4 4
Project Assignment 2 4 8
Final 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 199

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.153
LO.244
LO.3454
LO.4533
LO.55334
LO.6444
LO.755543

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