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Hydrology and Water Resources

4. Common fields of use

• Principals of hydrology: basic equations, surface and channel flow, rainfall-runoff relations, analysis and design.
• Catchment hydrology: hydrological cycle, hydrographs, rating curves, precipitation, evaporation.
• Water resource management: strategic issues, planning, human interferences, water demand, integrated systems.
• Applied informatics: computer technology, system and application software, software applications.
• Computer operations: design diagrams and subprograms, data types and arrays, algorithms and input/output.
• Engineering economics: basic concepts, discounting and economic evaluation, cost-benefit analyses.
• Mathematics: differential equations, linear algebra.
• Meteorological processes: precipitation, evaporation.
• Deterministic hydrology: hydrologic systems, black box analyses, flood routing, conceptual models
• River hydraulics: fluid properties, uniform and varied flow, unsteady flow, sediment transport, (Hygrometry) flow measurement, rating curve.
• Stochastic hydrology: population and sample, frequency and distribution, randomness, probability, variables, types of hydrological sequences, Fourier models, correlations, trends.
• Data collection and processing: types of data collection and registration, recording interval, processing and storage of data.
• Hydrological network design: network planning, network design techniques, monitoring of climate and surface runoff.
• Reservoir operation design requirements: mass flow curve, optimal reservoir, dynamic programming, flood routing.
• Modelling: Hydrological models and flood forecasting, warning and mitigation, surface/groundwater water modelling for sustained water supply, modelling and monitoring channel flows.

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