Course Descriptions

Water Resources Engineering

CWR 5125 Groundwater Flow I.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 4202 or consent of instructor.
Porous media flow. Darcy's law. Conservation of mass. LaPlace equation. Flownets. Well hydraulics.

CWR 5127 Evaluation of Groundwater Quality.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 5125 or 6525, or consent of instructor.
Characteristics of flow in saturated and unsaturated zones; solute convection and dispersion; effects of chemical reactions and adsorption; management of groundwater quality.

CWR 5225 Hydraulics Machinery.
Credits: 2; Prereq: CWR 4202 or consent of instructor.
Selection and operation of hydraulic motors, pumps and transmissions. Specific speed. Cavitation. Surge tanks.

CWR 5235 Open Channel Hydraulics.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 4202 or consent of instructor.
Classification of flow, Normal depth. Specific energy and critical depth. Gradually varied flow. Transitions.

CWR 6115 Surface Hydrology.
Credits: 3; Prereq: MAP 3302 or EGM 3311, CWR 3201 or EGN 3353C.
Occurrence and distribution of water by natural processes including atmospheric thermodynamics, precipitation, runoff, infiltration, water losses, flood routing and catchment characteristics, analysis, and methods of runoff prediction. Current hydrologic computer models.

CWR 6126 Groundwater Management.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 5125 or consent of instructor.
Review recent developments in groundwater systems planning and management, optimization methods; groundwater supply management models, quality management models; inverse problems.

CWR 6206 Hydraulics of Stratified Flow.
Credits: 2; Prereq: CWR 5235 or consent of instructor.
Uniform and nonuniform flow in multi-layered systems. Oscillatory motion and interfacial mixing.

CWR 6236 Sediment Transport I.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 5235 or consent of instructor.
Introduction to movable bed models. Sediment properties. Scour initiation. Influence of slope. Stable channels. Bed forms. Transport as bed load and suspended transport.

CWR 6237 Sediment Transport II.
Credits: 2; Prereq: CWR 6236 or consent of instructor.
Review of fundamental laws of scour initiation and sediment transport. River morphology. Movable bed hydraulic models.

CWR 6238 Transient Flows in Open Channels.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 5235 or consent of instructor.
Basic equations for unsteady flows in open channels; methods of characteristics; finite difference approximations; flood routing.

CWR 6255 Diffusive and Dispersive Transport.
Credits: 2; Prereq: CWR 4202 or consent of instructor.
Introduction to diffusive and dispersive transport processes in flowing water. Fick's law. Available analytical and numerical models.

CWR 6275 Hydraulic Laboratory and Field Practice.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 4202 or consent of instructor.
Hydraulic model laws and their use in undistorted and distorted models with movable or fixed beds. Instrumentation. Data acquisition system.

CWR 6285 Transient Flow in Pipes.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 5235 or consent of instructor.
Water hammers in singular pipes and systems. Governing differential equations. Numerical methods. Turbomachine-induced transients. Control measures.

CWR 6515 Numerical Models in Hydraulics.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 4202 or consent of instructor.
Application of numerical methods to hydraulic engineering problems; dispersion, porous media flow, river and estuarine mechanics, thermal diffusion.

CWR 6525 Groundwater Flow II.
Credits: 3; Prereq: CWR 5125 or consent of instructor.
Analytical and computer modeling of groundwater flow problems by means of finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods.

CWR 6536 Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology.
Credits: 3; Prereq: senior-level course in probability and statistics, calculus through differential equations, soil physics, and/or subsurface hydrology.
Stochastic modeling of subsurface flow and transport including geostatistics, time series analysis, Kalman filtering, and physically based stochastic models.

CWR 6537 Contaminant Subsurface Hydrology.
Credits: 3; Prereq: MAP 3302 or 4341 or equivalent; CGS 3420 or equivalent; AGE 6252 or CWR 5125 or 5127 or equivalent; SOS 4404 or EES 6208 or equivalent.
Physical-chemical-biological concepts and modeling of retention and transport of water and solutes in unsaturated and saturated media. Applications of environmental aspects of soil and groundwater contamination emphasized.