Course detail

Waterworks Structures

FAST-BSA001Acad. year: 2024/2025

History of waterworks engineering, organization of water management in CR and EU, The Water Act. Torrents, water courses
Water courses regulations, flood control, weirs, water courses restoration. Water abstraction from water courses, artificial channels, waterways, water reservoirs. Construction, arrangement and use of water reservoirs, ponds and purpose reservoirs. Watershed protection,land consolidation. Landscape restoration,landscape water management. Irrigation, drainage, municipal engineering, catchment of water sources. Water supply, water treatment, water reservoirs and water towers. Sewerage, sewage water treatment, sludge management, sewage water treatment plants, waste disposal, landfills. Balneology, water management research.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Michal Kriška-Dunajský, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

basic knowledge of physics

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Basic knowledge of water management, simple water management calculations and design of structures.
Basic knowledge of water management

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ČSN – české technické normy
Studijní opory k předmětu BSA001: kolektiv autorů, Brno. (CS)
Šálek, J., Hlavínek, P., Mičín, J. a kol.: Vodní stavitelství. CERM, Brno, 2001, s. 144. ISBN 80-214-2068-5 (CS)
Veselý, J., Milerski, R., Mičín, J.: Vodohospodářské stavby. CERM, Brno, 2005, s. 164. ISBN 978-80-7204-759-8 (CS)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.
Ing. Michal Žoužela, Ph.D.
Ing. David Duchan, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Michal Kriška-Dunajský, Ph.D.
Ing. Jan Ručka, Ph.D.
Ing. Miroslav Špano, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction and basic information about the subject. 2. Open water reservoirs, dams and water-power utilization. 3. Weirs, water withdrawal from watercourses, waterways and navigation. 4. Watercourses, their development and treatment, torrent control. 5. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – physical properties of liquids, hydrostatic and body filling, hydrodynamics. 6. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – steady pressure flow, flow of water in open channels, overflows. 7. Basic concepts and relations of hydraulics – outlet through the hole, energy height of the cross section (water jump), flow of groundwater. 8. Hydrology, water cycle in nature, measurement of climatic variables, hydrology of reservoirs. 9. Ponds and purpose reservoirs, flood control, dikes. 10. Irrigations, drainage, watershed protection. 11. Municipal engineering. 12. Drinking water supply, treatment and transport of water, balneotechnology. 13. Sewerage and sewage water treatment.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Pavel Zubík, Ph.D.
prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.
Ing. Eva Hyánková, Ph.D.
Ing. Jan Ručka, Ph.D.
Ing. Miroslav Špano, Ph.D.
Ing. Tomáš Kozel, Ph.D.
Ing. Tomáš Chorazy, Ph.D.
Ing. Ondřej Zedník, Ph.D.
Ing. Michal Novotný
Ing. Ondřej Kosík
Ing. Jiří Skokan
Ing. Tereza Tůmová
Ing. Pavel Škarpa

Syllabus

1.–6. Excursions to the laboratories of water management institutes. 7.–12. Work up 6 basic hydraulic calculations.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Waterworks Structures

Type of course unit