Course detail

Sediments in Rivers

FAST-NRB015Acad. year: 2024/2025

Course contents: Basic division and concepts including global characteristics. Properties of water, sediments, deposits and suspensions. The characteristics of flow without and with transport of sediments. Erosion, transport and deposition of sediments including the characteristics of the movement, equations of continuity and dischrge of sediments. Measurement in rivers and reservoirs. Influence of sediment dischrge and sediment transport. Modelling the sediment transport and the evolution of river channels. Sediments and depostits in reservoirs. Case studies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Zbyněk Zachoval, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Water Structures (VST)

Entry knowledge

Hydraulics, hydrology, soil mechanics, dams, reservoirs, river training and weirs.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Informacion of Bankerosion of reservoir.
Riparian zone reconstruction to minimize uncontrolled scouring propagation.Specification of factors causing generation and propagation of scouring, detailed analysis and process of determination of these factors.


Knowledge in following areas:
- informacion of Bankerosion of reservoir,
- specification of factors causing generation,
- propagation of scouring,
- detailed analysis and process of determination of these factors.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NPC-SIV Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Zbyněk Zachoval, Ph.D.

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

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Zbyněk Zachoval, Ph.D.

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.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course