Course Details

Flood Protection

Academic Year 2025/26

NRB021 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Aleš Dráb, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295726

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.