Course Details

Modeling in Water Management

Academic Year 2025/26

NRB014 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295731

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction (classification of problems, initial and boundary problems).
  • 2.–3. Conservation laws, momentum equation, equations of state.
  • 4.–5. Derivation of governing equation for simplifying assumptions.
  • 6.–7. Strain-stress analysis of hydro-structures.
  • 8.–9. Modelling in seepage hydraulics.
  • 10.–11. Dam break simulations.
  • 12.–13. Pollution transport in open channels modelling.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Introduction to ANSYS code.
  • 3.–5. Stress and strain analysis of hydrstructures.
  • 6.–7. Unsteady confined groundwater flow below hydraulic structures.
  • 8. Groundwater flow – problems with phreatic surface.
  • 9.–10. Dam breaching due to piping and overtopping.
  • 11.–13. Water quality modelling (dynamic, balance).