Reservoirs and water management systems

Course Code: 
BS003
Term: 
Summer
Obligation: 
Compulsory course
Termination: 
Credit, Exam
Number of Credits: 
4
Lectures: 
2 [hour/week]
Practises: 
2 [hour/week]
Learning objectives and competences: 

Basic knowledge of river basin runoff control with the use of isolated reservoirs and water management systems, ability to determine basic functional vulumes of water in reservoirs, obtaining information necessary for construction of mathematical models of water flow through the water supply sytem and flood control system, ability to use adequate tools suitable for solving basic type of tasks.

Annotation: 

Control of river basin runoff, means for this activity, basic function of a reservoir, relevant equations. Categorization of the reservoirs, function volumes, water management solution of reservoir storage function, water management solution of reservoir protection function. Water management plan, dispatcher control of the reservoir, water management systems. Assembling of mathematical model of water flow in water management system, solution of water management systems storage function, use of simulation model and methods of optimal programming for solution of optimal control and development of water management systems, protection function of water management systems.

Course Curriculum: 
1. Control of river basin runoff, basic terms
2. Fundamental for water management solution of the reservoirs and systems
3. Reservoirs, distribution, basic equation of the reservoirs, functional volumes
4. - 6. Water management solution of the supply function of the reservoir (water management balance, basic types of the tasks - numerical and graphical solution, losses)
7. 8. Water management solution of the protection function of the reservoir (retention volume controllable and uncontrollable and their combination, simulation of the reservoir behavior)
9. Reservoirs operation, manipulation order and dispatcher graph
10. Reservoirs in natural environment, definition of water managenet system,, basic characteristics
11. Water management systems, common procedure for solving basic types of the tasks, schematization
12. The role of optimum control of the water supply systems
13. The role of optimum development of water supply system, protection function of water management systems.
Input Knowledge and Skills: 

Basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, operational and system analyses and hydrology.

Output Knowledge and Skills: 

Basic knowledge of river basin runoff control with the use of isolated reservoirs and water management systems.

Literature: 
  • Vijay Singh: Water Resources Planning and Management, ISBN 1-887201-24-6. Publ. 1999 WRP, 1999
  • LOUCKS, D.P., STEDINGER, J.R., HAITH, D.A.: Water resource systems planning and analysis, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1981