Teaching

Flood Management (2013)

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Leonardo da Vinci's drawings from 1502 and 1514:

The Arno river flooding in vicinity of Tuscan towns Arezzo, Perugia, and Sie-na (above), and drainage canals for land reclamation and flood protection of town Terracina on the shore of the Tyrrhenian sea (below).

Semester: IX.

Number of hours: 2+2

ECTS credits: 5


Remark: A subject with similar syllabus, but of somewhat broader and more theoretical scope, is offered on the postgraduate level at the Faculty of Civil Engineering. This subject matter is also partially covered by the subject "Integrated Flood Management", within the e-learning postgraduate programme in Water Resources and Environmental Management "Educate!"

Lectures:

  1. Typology of floods and factors affecting flood frequency and intensity.
  2. Best practices and legislative demands (EU Flood Directive, Serbian water law).
  3. Hydrologic input data. Flood hazard and risk.
  4. Numerical modelling of flood wave propagation.
  5. Software hydraulic GIS tools (HEC-RAS).
  6. Structural active and passive measures for flood control and management.
  7. Design of the optimal levee height (deterministic and stochastic approaches).
  8. Methods for flood damage assessment.
  9. Nonstructural measures: flood zone, damage, and risk mapping.
  10. Urban flood management (The SUDS concept).
  11. Floodplains restoration and their role in flood management and ecology.

Practicals:

  1. Comments on best practices and legislative demands.
  2. HEC-RAS project: unsteady flow calculation and flood transformation analysis.
  3. HEC-RAS project: floodplain encroachment calculation and analysis.
  4. HEC-FDA project: hydrologic and hydraulic uncertainties assessment.
  5. Deterministic design of the optimal levee height.
  6. Seminar paper on chosen topic (writing and presentation).

Literature:

  1. Jovanović, M., River Training - river hydraulics and morphology, Faculty of Civil Eng., 2008 (in Serbian)
  2. M. Jovanović, Flood Management, lectures in digital form 2010 (in Serbian)
  3. Ashley et al., Advances in Urban Flood Management, Taylor & Francis, London, 2007.
  4. Collection of relevant articles in English and Serbian.