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River Engineering - CVEN4505
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisites: CVEN2501, CVEN3502.
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 5 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Professional elective that in any offering may include various combinations of the following topics:- river morphology, river engineering and stream remediation; models for channel and river routing; model theory, selection, calibration, validation and reliability; models may include Muskingham, kinematic wave, non-inertial and diffusion and dynamic wave; sediment and pollutant transport methods and models including plug-flow and advection-dispersion in both coupled and uncoupled applications; hydraulic control structures; estuarine classification and density structure; tides, water level response, mixing processes and flushing of rivers and estuarties; hydrodynamic stratification and algal dynamics; random walk and box models; biochemical processes in rivers and estuaries.


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