Course Details

Sediments in Rivers

Academic Year 2025/26

NRB015 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Zbyněk Zachoval, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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/295730

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic division and concepts, global characteristics.
  • 2. Properties of water, sediments, depostis and suspensions.
  • 3. Characteristics of flow.
  • 4. Erosion of deposits.
  • 5. Deposition of sediments.
  • 6. Transport of sediments – characteristics of motion.
  • 7. Transport of sediments – continuity equation.
  • 8. Transport of sediments – sediment discharge.
  • 9. Measurements in rivers and reservoirs.
  • 10. Influence of sediment dischrge and transport of sediments.
  • 11. Modeling of sediment transport and river bed evolution.
  • 12. Sediments and deposits in reservoirs.
  • 13. Case studies.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Assignment of the sediment study of a river reach. Underlying data for the study.
  • 2. Model of the uniform flow of water.
  • 3. Model of the uniform transport of sediments: incipient motion of sediments, transport curve.
  • 4. Model of the uniform transport of sediments: effective discharge, average annual discharge of sediments.
  • 5. 1D model of the nonuniform flow of water.
  • 6. 1D model of the nonuniform transport of sediments.
  • 7. 1D model of the long-term nonuniform transport of sediments before construction of the dam.
  • 8. 1D model of the long-term nonuniform transport of sediments after construction of the dam.
  • 9. Calculation of the deposition of sediments in reservoir by empirically determined trap efficiency curves.
  • 10. Comparison of the annual transport of sediments and the sediment deposition in reservoir by various methods.
  • 11. Report of the sediment study of river reach.
  • 12. Presentation of the sediment study of river reach.
  • 13. Control of study duties. Credit.