35431 - ADVANCED HYDROSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Anno Accademico 2012/2013

  • Docente: Sandro Artina
  • Crediti formativi: 9
  • SSD: ICAR/02
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

A successful learner from this course will be able to: a) deal with the most actual and urgent hydraulic and environmental problems connected with water supplies and drainage systems; design and operate urban water systems, taking into account: i) advanced design procedures and technological findings; ii) environmental and economic issues; and iii) construction site aspects; the b) apply basic modelling and computational techniques for addressing reliability analysis and risk assessment in civil engineering, with special emphasis on the water sector.

Contenuti

Water supply systems :

General aspects of water supply systems: sources of potable water, networks layout and components.

Water distribution modeling

Water consumption modeling

Operations and control of water distribution systems

Water quality investigation and modeling

Energy management

Water losses monitoring and control

Design criteria for water supply systems

Optimization techniques applied to water supply systems

Urban drainage systems :

Overview of drainage systems

Planning of urban separate and combined drainage systems

Hydrologic cycle in urban areas

Estimating storm runoff and domestic sewage design discharges

Traditional and advanced design of urban drainage systems

Water quality issues in urban areas

Detention ponds and first flush tanks

Operation and maintenance of urban drainage systems



Testi/Bibliografia

Lecture slides.

T. M. WALSKY, D.V. CHASE, D.A. SAVIC Water distribution modeling, 1st Edition, Heasted press, 2001.

M. FARLEY, S. TROW Losses in water distribution networks, 1st Edition, IWA Publishing, 2003.

D. BUTLER, J. W. DAVIES Urban Drainage, 3rd Edition, Spon press, 2011.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written test: multiple choice questions, open questions or short exercises.

Oral test: discussion of written test results, eventual additional questions.

Evaluation and discussion of homeworks.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Sandro Artina

Consulta il sito web di Cristiana Bragalli

Consulta il sito web di Vittorio Di Federico