Design of Urban Water Management Structures

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Free Online Course: Design of Urban Water Management Structures provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 5 weeks long, 5-6 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Design of Urban Water Management Structures is taught by Rao Govindaraju.

Overview
  • Detention storage structures and storm sewer systems are used to store and transport rainfall-runoff through open ditched and underground pipes.

    In this course, we will:

    • Learn about spatial distribution of rainfall, perform statistical analysis, fit different distributions to the data, and calculate design rainfall.
    • Learn to estimate runoff using the rational method and time of concentration, and use the SCS-CN method to determine the time distribution of runoff. Unit hydrograph theory and computation of storm hydrographs will be covered.
    • Use regulations to design storm sewer systems using EPA-SWMM.
    • Compute storage volumes for detention storage structures.

Syllabus
    • Week 1: Rainfall temporal and spatial variation, design rainfall and hydrologic risk
    • Week 2: Runoff using Rational Method, storm sewer design
    • Week 3: Detention storage design, SCS CN method
    • Week 4: Hydrographs, SCS triangular and curvilinear unit hydrographs
    • Week 5: Superposition, computing runoff hydrographs from unit hydrograph theory