River Basin Modelling
For whom?
The course is designed for professionals (engineers and scientists) active in the water sector, especially those involved in using simulation models for river basin modelling. Pre-requisites are a basic knowledge of hydraulics and hydrology.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 03 April 2017
End: 21 April 2017
Deadline IHE application: 03 March 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Understand and explain the multi-purpose nature of river basins and approaches for their integrated planning and management.
- Understand and model flow processes in porous media
- Use MODFLOW to simulate groundwater flow in the saturated zone
- Understand and model hydrological processes in catchments
- Use NAM to simulate rainfall runoff in a natural catchment
- Know how to use MIKE-SHE to model both surface and groundwater flow in a natural catchment, including the unsaturated zone
Course content
Water resources management has become a field where computer-based models are expected to facilitate the complex process of decision making which involves several stakeholders with varied interests and various socioeconomic objectives, of the natural resources. One of the aims of the course is to show how different types of models can be used as support in the decision making processes in river basins. Managing water resources in river basins requires water resources engineering expertise combined with use of appropriate hydroinformatics models.
During the course practical applications of the modelling systems are demonstrated, involving testing of different management alternatives with fully integrated models.The three main topics of the course are introduced through computer–based hands-on exercises with appropriate modelling packages:
- Basin-wide water allocation - RIBASIM;
- Groundwater modelling – Processing MODFLOW;
- Catchment and river modelling - MIKE SHE / MIKE 11.