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The study guide for CEIE 340 at George Mason University covers key topics in Water Resources Engineering, including hydrographs, infiltration, evapotranspiration (ET), runoff, hydrologic routing, flood management, subsurface hydrology, and urban hydrology. It outlines essential definitions, methods, and applications relevant to each topic, such as the Phi-index method for infiltration and the Penman-Monteith equation for estimating ET. The guide serves as a comprehensive resource for preparing for Exam 2 in the course.

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Study Guide

The study guide for CEIE 340 at George Mason University covers key topics in Water Resources Engineering, including hydrographs, infiltration, evapotranspiration (ET), runoff, hydrologic routing, flood management, subsurface hydrology, and urban hydrology. It outlines essential definitions, methods, and applications relevant to each topic, such as the Phi-index method for infiltration and the Penman-Monteith equation for estimating ET. The guide serves as a comprehensive resource for preparing for Exam 2 in the course.

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George Mason University

Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering


CEIE 340 – Water Resources Engineering

Study Guide for Exam 2

Hydrographs
 What is a hydrograph?
 List and define each component of a hydrograph
 Define and list abstractions

Infiltration
 Describe the infiltration process
 List and describe methods to measure and estimate infiltration
 Apply the Phi-index method
 Apply the Horton’s method
 Apply the NRCS method

ET
 What is the difference between evaporation and transpiration? Why do we
lump them together?
 Describe the role of ET within the hydrologic cycle
 What factors influence ET?
 Define potential ET, reference crop ET, actual ET
 Compute crop coefficients
 List methods to estimate ET/PET and their advantages/disadvantages
 Apply the water budget model to estimate ET
 Estimate ET given measurements from an evaporation pan
 Define the components of the surface energy balance
 Apply the Penman-Monteith equation to estimate reference ET

Runoff
 Define streamflow, discharge, runoff, surface runoff
 Define peak discharge and explain its importance for engineering design
 The effect of land use and shape on the hydrograph
 Estimate peak discharge with the Rational Method
 Discuss the assumptions and limitation of the Rational Method
 Define time of concentration

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George Mason University
Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering
CEIE 340 – Water Resources Engineering

 Define Unit Hydrograph


 List the steps to determine a unit hydrograph
 Define duration of rainfall excess, lag time, time of rise, Time of
concentration, Time base
 Develop a unit hydrograph for a gauged basin
 Develop a unit hydrograph for an ungauged basin using the NRCS method
 Apply the convolution method to derive design-runoff hydrographs

Hydrologic Routing
 Define hydrologic routing
 What is the difference between reservoir routing and channel routing?
 Apply the reservoir routing algorithm
 Apply the weir equation to estimate outflow
 Apply the Muskingum method for river routing

Flood Management
 Define different types of floods
 List different methods for flood control and management

Subsurface Hydrology
 Discuss the role of groundwater in the hydrological cycle
 Discuss the importance of groundwater in water resources engineering
 Discuss the challenges of measuring GW
 Define head and its components
 Apply Darcy’s law to estimate GW flow, velocity, time to move

Urban Hydrology
 What are the impacts of urbanization on stormwater runoff?
 Define LID and its advantages
 List different LID strategies

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