CE 394K Surface Water Hydrology

Fall Semester 1996

Course Curriculum

Table of Contents

Class Unique Number: 13300
Instructor: David R. Maidment
Class Hours: MWF 11-12, ECJ 9.236
Office Hours: MF 1-3, ECJ 8.612
Telephone: (512)471-4620
Email: maidment@crwr.utexas.edu
Internet: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/prof/maidment/ce394k/ce394k.htm

Grading

Letter grades will be based on the weighted average specified above and assigned as follows:

There will be no make-up exams or incomplete grades in this course. I reserve the right to change the date of a quiz with notice in advance. Course instructor evaluation will be by the usual College of Engineering procedures.

Course text

"Applied Hydrology", by V.T. Chow, D.R. Maidment, and L.W. Mays, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988.

Recommended Reading: "Handbook of Hydrology", ed. by D.R. Maidment, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993

Homework

Homework assignments are due in by 5PM on the date assigned. There is a box outside my door in ECJ 8.6 for turning in assignments after the class hour if necessary. Homework must be done on clean paper, must be stapled at the top left corner, and have your name written on the top right corner, and your name, class and assignment number written on the outside when the homework is folded in half.

Course objectives

This course is designed to present:


Term Paper

The purposes of the term paper are:

  1. To enable you to explore in depth some aspect of surface water hydrology of personal interest to you.
  2. To provide experience in the formulation, execution, and presentation of original research.
  3. To produce a report that can be display on the world wide web and that you can carry with you into the future.

The steps in carrying out the project are:

  1. Prepare a 1-page type-written proposal by Friday, Sept 27 specifying the objective of your project and outlining how you plan to go about executing it.
  2. Give a brief presentation of the progress you have made with your project in class on Monday Oct 28.
  3. Present a final report orally in class near the end of the semester. You will have about 10 mins for your presentation. The presentation date will be scheduled later in the semester.
  4. Present a written report by the last day of classes, Friday Dec 6. I would like you to present your report both in typewritten form and as an html document which can be read on the world wide web. I realise that you may not know how to present documents on the web and I will show you how to do this during the semester. You can produce html documents by saving them in html format from a word processor (Microsoft offers a downloadable addition to Word called Internet Assistant for this purpose), by preparing them in a text editor and inserting the descriptive html tags yourself, or by using a web document editor like HotMeTaL or HotDog.

Course Outline for CE 394K:
Surface Water Hydrology

Fall 1996

DATETOPIC
Water Balance at the Land Surface
Weds Aug 29Introduction to hydrology, hydrologic cycle
Fri Aug 31Control volumes, Reynolds Transport Theorem
Labor Day Vacation
Weds Sept 4Continuity and mass balance
Fri Sept 6Momentum principle
Mon Sept 9Energy balance
Weds Sept 11Atmospheric circulation
Fri Sept 13Water vapor flow
Mon Sept 16 Precipitation formation
Weds Sept 18Precipitation measurement
Fri Sept 20Nexrad radar rainfall
Mon Sept 23Evaporation and the energy balance
Weds Sept 25 Evaporation and aerodynamics
Fri Sept 27Evapotranspiration
Mon Sept 30Infiltration and soil water movement
Weds Oct 2Green-Ampt equation
Fri Oct 4Infiltration under rainfall
Mon Oct 7Excess precipitation
Weds Oct 9Review
Fri Oct 11QUIZ
Water Flow Through the Landscape
Mon Oct 14Surface and groundwater flow
Weds Oct 16Transport of chemicals
Fri Oct 18Transport of sediment
Mon Oct 21Storm runoff
Weds Oct 23Unit hydrograph
Fri Oct 25Spatially distributed unit hydrograph
Mon Oct 28Groundwater flow systems
Weds Oct 30Unconfined shallow groundwater
Fri Nov 1Deeper confined flow
Mon Nov 4Water flow in rivers
Weds Nov 6Muskingum method for flow routing
Fri Nov 8 Routing based on St Venant equations
Mon Nov 11Nonpoint source pollution sources
Weds Nov 13Computation of pollutant concentrations
Fri Nov 15Pollutant loadings
Mon Nov 18 Map-based hydrologic modeling
Weds Nov 20Modeling of large river basins
Fri Nov 22Term project presentations
Mon Nov 25Term project presentations
Weds Nov 27Term project presentations
Thanksgiving Vacation!!
Mon Dec 2Term project presentations
Weds Dec 4Term project presentations
Fri Dec 6Course evaluation and review for final exam

Final Exam: Weds Dec 11, 9 AM - 12 noon