Course Details

Flood Protection

Academic Year 2024/25

NRB021 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year

1. Catastrophic flood events of recent years – up to date methods of flood protection.
2. Extent and level flood protection in relation to potential damages and losses – economic (urban areas, agricultural areas, industry) and uneconomic (health and lifes of people and animals, ecologic).
3. Factors influencing number and extent of floods and flood damages.
4. Risk analysis (RA) of floodplains.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Hydraulics, hydrology, river engineering, weirs, fluvial numerical modelling, GIS.

Aims

The aim is to establish the framework of flood protection and isuues at the flood protection measures. The flood protection is assessed from the view of water management and flow hydrodynamics, environmetal and societal views. Students will learn basics of floodplain risk analysis.
Knowledge of topics:
1. Flood types, their generation, hydrologic measurements, historical floods
2. Identification of flood hazards (determination of potentially endangered areas and possible scenarios of flood course)
3. Simulation of flood scenarios (rainfall runoff models, modelling flood plain water flow and ground water flow), runoff conditions study
4. Flooding affected by water structures (operating regulation, actualisation of flood protection measures), hydraulic structures safety during flooding
5. Flood plain risk and its evaluation (vulnerability, exposition, risk, evaluation methods)
6. Assessment of potentially flooded areas (according water law, classification according town planning scheme)
7. Uncertainties and their effect on the level of flood protection
8. Flood plain damage determination, flood risk quantification.
9. Ground water regimes changes during flood events.
10. Types of flood protection and their design

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Flood types, their generation, hydrologic measurements, historical floods.
  • 2. Identification of flood hazards (determination of potentially endangered areas and possible scenarios of flood course).
  • 3. Simulation of flood scenarios (rainfall runoff models, modelling flood plain water flow and ground water flow), runoff conditions study.
  • 4. Flooding affected by water structures (operating regulation, actualisation of flood protection measures), hydraulic structures safety during flooding.
  • 5. Flood plain risk and its evaluation (vulnerability, exposition, risk, evaluation methods).
  • 6. Assessment of potentially flooded areas (according water law, classification according town planning scheme).
  • 7. Uncertainties and their effect on the level of flood protection.
  • 8. Flood plain damage determination, flood risk quantification.
  • 9. Groundwater regimes changes during flood events.
  • 10. Types of flood protection and their design.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.–2. Flood hazard maps.
  • 3.–4. Flood danger and risk maps.
  • 5.–6. Flood losses estimation.
  • 7.–9. esign of flood protection measures.
  • 10. Cost benefit analysis.