Water Resources, Hydrologic and Environmental Sciences
Civil Engineering Department
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372
(970) 491-7621
CIVE 522 ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY
INSTRUCTOR
JORGE A. RAMÍREZ, PH.D.
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
A222 Engineering Bldg. (970) 491-7621
Office Hours: MWF 1:00 - 2:00 PM – A222 Engineering Bldg.
TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCES
The following books and references have been placed on reserve at the Morgan Library.
1. Applied Hydrology by Ven Te Chow, David Maidment, and Larry W. Mays. McGraw
Hill, 1988.
2. Hydrology, An Introduction by Wifried Brutsaert. Cambridge University Press, 2005
3. Dynamic Hydrology by Peter S. Eagleson. McGraw Hill, 1970.
4. Kinematic Wave Modeling in Water Resources by Vijay P. Singh. John Wiley and Sons,
Inc. 1996.
5. Probability, Statistics, and Decision for Civil Engineers, by Jack R. Benjamin and C. Allin
Cornell. McGraw Hill, 1970.
6. Hydrology, an Introduction to Hydrologic Science by Rafael L. Bras. Addison Wesley,
1990.
7. Introduction to Hydrology by Warren Viessman, John Knapp, Gary Lewis, Terence
Harbaugh. Crowell, Harper and Row, 1977.
8. Class handouts.
9. [Link]
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course emphasizes engineering applications of hydrologic science. Rainfall-runoff analysis.
Lumped and distributed flow routing. Reservoir and river flood routing. Kinematic, diffusive and
dynamic waves. Precipitation data analysis and optimal interpolation. Hydrologic design: risk
analysis, hydro-economic analysis, and analysis of uncertainty. Bayesian decision analysis.
Design storms. Design flows. Hydrologic reservoir design. Watershed modeling applied to
hydrologic design.
COURSE EVALUATION
Three exams (75% of final grade) and 5/6 homework assignments (25% of final grade)
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND HONOR PLEDGE
This course will adhere to the Academic Integrity Policy of the Colorado State University
General Catalog and the Student Conduct Code. Accordingly, we will use an honor pledge for all
homework assignments and all exams as indicated below.
The honor pledge will be:
“I pledge that I have not given, received, or used any unauthorized assistance.”
“I pledge that I will not give, receive, or use any unauthorized assistance.”
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COURSE OUTLINE
TOPICS
Linear System Theory and Rainfall-Runoff Analysis
Unit hydrograph theory
Instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH)
IUH analysis methods: Harmonic analysis
Fourier transforms
Laplace transforms
Linear channel
Linear reservoir
Nash model
River and Reservoir Flood Routing
Flood Routing
Reservoir flood routing methods:
Mass curve method
Storage indication method
Puls method
Goodrich method
Coefficient method
Woodward method
Others
Linear Muskingum method:
Analytical Solution
Hydraulic analogy
Parameter estimation procedures.
Multiple reach Muskingum method
Nonlinear Muskingum method:
Muskingum-Cunge method
Distributed flow routing - Wave motion
Kinematic wave and Overland Flow
Analytical solution - Overland flow problem
Linear and non-linear numerical solutions
Overland Flow with spatially variable infiltration
Routing of diffusive and dynamic waves
Hydrologic Design
Design scale
Design Level
Risk Analysis
Hydroeconomic Analysis
First Order Analysis of uncertainty
Composite Risk Analysis
Risk Analysis of safety factors and safety margins
Hydrologic design under natural and parameter uncertainty
Bayes risk
Opportunity Losses
Value of Sample Information
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TOPICS
Precipitation data analysis.
Data analysis
Modeling
Mean Areal Precipitation: Thiessen polygons - Isohyets - IWD Methods
Kriging
Kriging with covariances
Kriging with semivariograms
Kriging with generalized covariances
Co-Kriging
Orographic Influences and their analysis
Design Storms
Design precipitation depth
Point precipitation
Areal precipitation
Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves
Design Hyetographs
Storm event-based analysis
IDF-based analysis
Estimated Limiting Storms
Frequency analysis
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