Course Details
Flood Protection
Academic Year 2024/25
NRB021 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
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. Flood types, their generation, hydrologic measurements, historical floods.
2. Identification of flood hazards (determination of potentially endangered areas and possible scenarios of flood course).
3. Simulation of flood scenarios (rainfall runoff models, modelling flood plain water flow and ground water flow), runoff conditions study.
4. Flooding affected by water structures (operating regulation, actualisation of flood protection measures), hydraulic structures safety during flooding.
5. Flood plain risk and its evaluation (vulnerability, exposition, risk, evaluation methods).
6. Assessment of potentially flooded areas (according water law, classification according town planning scheme).
7. Uncertainties and their effect on the level of flood protection.
8. Flood plain damage determination, flood risk quantification.
9. Groundwater regimes changes during flood events.
10. Types of flood protection and their design.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.–2. Flood hazard maps.
3.–4. Flood danger and risk maps.
5.–6. Flood losses estimation.
7.–9. esign of flood protection measures.
10. Cost benefit analysis.