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River Engineering

By Prof. Subashisa Dutta   |   IIT Guwahati
Learners enrolled: 900
In the last few decades, water demand in the globe has increased in many folds. Rivers,one of the major source of water demand for domestic, agricultural, and industrial uses, are often not utilized properly for long-term sustainability. Therefore, it is a challenging task for engineers for understanding water, sediment and energy transport processes in rivers in both spatial and temporal scales.This course will address how to understand and model hydro-fluvial processes and designing of advanced river intervention structures.


INTENDED AUDIENCE : Undergraduate Students in Different Engineering Colleges
PREREQUISITES : Not Applicable
INDUSTRIES  SUPPORT     : None
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content :
Duration : 8 weeks
Category :
  • Civil Engineering
Credit Points : 2
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 25 Jul 2022
End Date : 16 Sep 2022
Enrollment Ends : 08 Aug 2022
Exam Date : 25 Sep 2022 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1:PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND EQUATIONS 
     o Dimensions and units
     o Properties of water and sediment
     o River flow kinematics
     o Conservation of mass
     o Equations of motion
     o Hydraulic and energy grade lines
Week 2:STEADY FLOW IN RIVERS 
     o Steady river flow
     o Steady-nonuniform river flow
     o Sediment transport in rivers
Week 3: UNSTEADY FLOW IN RIVERS 
     o River continuity equation
     o  River momentum equations 
     o River flood waves 
     o Loop-rating curves
     o River flood routing
     o River flow and sediment-duration curves
Week 4:RIVER EQUILIBRIUM 
    o Particle stability
    o Channel stability
    o Regime relationships
    o Equilibrium in river bends
    o Downsteam hydraulic geometry
    o Bars in alluvial rivers
    o River meandering
    o Lateral river migration
Week 5:RIVER DYNAMICS 
   o River dynamics
   o Riverbed degradation
   o Riverbed aggradation
   o River confluences and branches
   o River databases
Week 6:RIVER STABILIZATION AND RIVER TRAINING WORK 
   o Riverbank stability
   o Riverbank riprap revetment
   o Riverbank protection
   o River flow-control structures
   o River training along braided rivers.
Week 7: RIVER ENGINEERING 
   o River flood control
   o River closure
   o Canal headworks
   o Bridge scour
   o Navigation waterways
Week 8:RIVER MODELLING 
    o Rigid-bed model
    o Mobile-bed river models
    o Finite-difference approximations
    o One-dimensional river models
    o Multidimensional river models

Books and references

1.River Mechanics,Pierre Y. Julien, Cambridge University Press,2002.
2.River Engineering,Margaret S Peterson,Prentice Hall,1986
3.River Morphology,R J Garde, New Age International Ltd,2015
4.Journal of Hydrology(Elservier),Sediment Research,ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Instructor bio

Prof. Subashisa Dutta

IIT Guwahati
Prof. Subashisa Dutta, Having more than 15 years experience of teaching in IIT Guwahati for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Fluid Mechanics course in undergraduate level was instructed five times by the Subject Matter Expert. Bcsides this, he developed a NPTEL web course on Fluid Mechanics for undergraduate students. ln the research and consultancies work of mathematical modeling of different rivers like the Brahmaputra, he has been exposed to real life challenging works. In this course, some of the real life problems will be discussed

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 25 September 2022 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Guwahati .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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