Course Details

Reservoirs and Water Management Systems

Academic Year 2025/26

BSA003 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Tomáš Kozel, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289861

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 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 and role of optimum development of water supply system, protection function of water management systems.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Reservoir characteristics determination
  • 2. Determination of the reservoir storage volume - graphically
  • 3. Determination of the reservoir storage volume - graphically
  • 4. Determination of the reservoir storage volume - numerically
  • 5. The input of loss of water from the reservoir to the solution
  • 6. Determination of the retention capacity of the reservoir and solution the parameters of functional objects
  • 7. Determination of the retention capacity of the reservoir and solution the parameters of functional objects
  • 8. Water management plan of the reservoir
  • 9. Dispatching chart construction
  • 10. Water management solutions of the cascade water supply function
  • 11. Task formulation of optimal control water supply subsystem
  • 12. Task formulation of optimal control water supply subsystem