Course Details

Sediments in Rivers

Academic Year 2024/25

CR052 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Basic concepts and division. 2. Grain properties, grain size composition in channel. 3. Incipient of grain motion, stability of channel bed and banks, erosion. 4. Sedimentation, sedimentation regimes, influencing factors. 5. Bed load. 6. Suspended load. 7. Measurement of sediment transport. 8. Sediment transport through weirs and drop structures. Methods for regulation of sediment transport. 9. Numerical modelling of sediment transport and channel development. 10. Physical modelling of sediment transport and channel development. 11. Reservoir sedimentation, sediment transport through reservoirs, channel development after dam removal. 12. Stability of reservoir banks. 13. Case studies.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Study specification, data. 2. 1D model - channel geometry. 3. 1D model - channel roughness, boundary conditions, model calibration. 4. 1D model - grain size characteristics of the channel. 5. 1D model - average annual discharge wave, boundary conditions. 6. 1D model - simulation of transport, evaluation of the bed level development. 7. 1D model – insertion of the weir. 8. 1D model - simulation of transport, evaluation of the bed level development. • 9. 1D model – removal of the weir. • 10. 1D model - simulation of transport, evaluation of the bed level development. • 11. Final Report. • 12. Calculation of the reservoir sedimentation. • 13. Presentation of the study.