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Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Applied hydroinformatics

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0115/01
Abbreviation AHIF
Course title Applied hydroinformatics
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Jan Unucka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

• Basic characteristics of the subject, new trends and conflicts, the history of hardware, basic principles and concepts of Hydroinformatics, difference between computational hydraulics and Hydroinformatics.
• List of hydrological, meteorological and climatic characteristics necessary for the Hydroinformatics analytic tools
• Database systems, secondary data processing, relational databases, internal databases, languages, SQL, QBE, cursors
• GIS as a tool for management and presentation of information in water management and environmental protection
• Digital terrain models and CAD, Data preparation for simulation models, boundary and initial conditions, Time series
• Computational Hydraulics, Modern methods of simulation tools programming, standards and principles, Procedure of creation a deterministic simulation model
• Creation a mathematical model, the general principles, the basic distribution of models, temporal and spatial dependence of the described phenomena, dynamic
• Complex simulation tools and their function in deciding on the implementation of complex ecological investments
• Artificial intelligence and its possible role in Hydroinformatics systems, basic definitions and elements of artificial intelligence.
• Applied Hydroinformatics in urban watersheds.
• Flood protection of urban units, Applied Hydroinformatics in the catchment area of large river systems, flood protection methodology in the newly adopted EU flood directive, influence of major meteorological and hydrological parameters for rainfall-runoff processes in river basin
• New trends in Hydroinformatics, modern trends in modeling, integration of technological systems, optimization methods, modeling based on the defined uncertainty
• Practical discussion of the completed project
• Credit
• Semester thesis, presentation confrontation with the defense of group opinions

Literature

ABBOTT M.B (1991): Hydroinformatics. Aidershot, Avebury Technical. ISBN 1 85628 832 3 
BEDIENT, P.B., HUBER W. C., VIEUX, B.E. (2007): Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis. 4th edition. London, Prentice Hall. 795 s. ISBN: 978-0131745896
BEVEN, K.J. (2002): Rainfall-runoff Modelling. The Primer. London, John Wiley & Sons. 372 s. ISBN: 978-0470866719 
MAIDMENT, D.R. ED. (1993): Handbook of Hydrology. 1st ed. London, McGraw-Hill Professional. 1424 s. ISBN: 978-0070397323 
MAIDMENT, D., DJOKIC, D. ed. (2000): Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling Support with Geographic Information Systems. Redlands, ESRI Press. 232 s. ISBN: 978-879102804
WAINWRIGHT, J. ET MULLIGAN, M. (2003): Environmental Modelling. Finding Simplicity in Komplexity. London, Wiley Blackwell. 430 s. ISBN: 978-0471496182 

Advised literature

BEVEN, K.J. (2009): Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future ? London, Routledge, 310 s. ISBN: 978-0-415-46302-7
DYHOUSE, G.R. et al. (2007): Floodplain modelling Using HEC-RAS. Watertown, Bentley Inst. Press. 696 s. ISBN: 978-1-934493-02-1 
KUMAR, P., ALAMEDA, J. C. (2006): Hydroinformatics: data integrative approaches in computation, analysis, and modeling. Boca Raton, CRC Press. 553 s. ISBN 0-8493-2894-2 
SINGH, V.P., FREVERT, D.K. (2006): Watershed Models. Boca Raton, CRC Press. ISBN: 978-08493-3609-6