20810166-1 - COASTAL HYDROLOGY-COASTAL FLOWS

Coastal Hydrology - A course introduces the students to surface and subsurface hydrology and provides the modeling skills for solving practical problems dealing with water exchange at the costal boundary.
This course is part of the master's degree program in "Sustainable Coastal and Ocean Engineering", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualification for development of coastal and marine infrastructures, with an increasing concern towards environmental protection and sustainable development under environmental changing conditions.
Within this framework, the course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of 1) the main physical processes involved in water cycle, 2) the fundamental issues related to water resources use, 3) the measurement and analysis of hydrologic data, 4) the hydrologic modeling of transport in aquifers and vadose zone, 5) the hydrologic modeling of surface processes at the catchment scale, contributing to water exchange across the coastal boundary and through the sea, and 6) the main criteria to develop a complex hydrological model, with specific focus on the interface with coastal and ocean environments. 
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Programma

1: Hydrology and global water cycle
2: Precipitation
3: Evapotranspiration
4: Runoff generation
5: Rainfall-runoff modeling
6: Flood routing
7: Estuaries and estuarine physics
8: Tidal analysis


Testi Adottati

Dingman, S.L. (2015). Physical Hydrology, Third Edition. Waveland Press, Long Grove, Illinois
Kovalik Z., Luick J.L. (2019). MODERN THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TIDE ANALYSIS AND TIDAL POWER. Austides Consulting, Australia.
Parker, B. B. (2007). Tidal analysis and prediction. NOAA

Modalità Erogazione

Theory and exercises

Modalità Valutazione

Oral discussion with presentation of the exercises

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Programma

1. Water flow in saturated media; saturated and unsaturated media; conceptual model; types of aquifers; fundamental equations, solutions; scale problem; Dupuit approximation; regional scale equations
2. Water flow in saturated media: Regional-scale equations; boundary conditions; modeling protocol; Wells
3. Supply from wells; well hydraulics; Methods of estimating hydrogeological parameters; groundwater pumping tests; flow in unsaturated media: flow equations; pedofunctions;
4. Flow in unsaturated media: loss analysis; calculation of infiltration
5. Introduction to MODFLOW and MODELMUSE: installation, basic operation
6. Examples: coastal aquifer, boundary conditions: constant head, general head Boundary, packages: lateral recharge, rain, wells, river



Testi Adottati

Handsout by the lecturer

Modalità Erogazione

The course includes: - a theoretical part on the fundamental knowledge of hydrology and hydrological modeling - an application part, during which students develop an hydrological study on groundwater

Modalità Valutazione

Oral discussion