Hydraulic Engineering Fundamentals and Environments Part II

The Hydraulic Engineering Extended Track Core of 24 EC consists of two parts. Part II (9 EC) contains two units: Coastal and Estuarine Systems and Introduction to Port and Waterway Systems. Together with the unit River Systems and Interventions of Part I, they cover the Hydraulic Engineering Environments or systems.

1. Coastal and Estuarine Systems (6EC). This unit covers: (1) the characteristics of a range of coastal systems (seas, open coasts, estuaries and tidal basins), (2) the morphodynamic behaviour of these systems (including the response to human interventions) based on the underlying hydrodynamic and sediment transport processes, and (3) typical coastal engineering problems and methods for coastal protection.

2. Introduction to Port and Waterway Systems (3EC) This unit explains the importance of port and waterway systems in supporting waterborne supply chains at different scales, and discusses performance optimization from an infrastructure perspective. The unit is organized around three themes: (1) Ports and terminals: challenges for port development, port planning, port layout, terminal development, (2) waterways: challenges for waterway development, waterway dimensions, waterway elements, ship and ship-waterway interactions, traffic management, (3) system performance: analyzing the performance of systems of ports/terminals and waterways (queueing theory).

Various topics will be considered in this module. An overview per unit is provided below.

Topics per week for Coastal and Estuarine Systems (and corresponding chapter in textbook):

Week 1: Introduction (Ch1) and large-scale geographical variation of coastal systems (Ch2)

Week 2: Wind waves and tides (Ch3),

Week 3: Global wave and tidal environments (Ch4), Coastal hydrodynamics – wind waves (Ch5)

Week 4: Coastal hydrodynamics – wind waves (Ch5), Coastal hydrodynamics – tides (Ch5),

Week 5: Sediment transport (Ch6), Cross-shore transport and profile development (Ch7)

Week 6: Cross-shore transport and profile development (Ch7), Longshore transport and coastline changes (Ch8)

Week 7: Exam questions Cross-shore and Longshore, practical Ch8, Coastal inlets and tidal basins (Ch9)

Week 8: Coastal inlets and tidal basins (Ch9), exam questions Tidal, Coastal protection (Ch10)

Topics per week for Introduction to Ports and Waterways:

Week 1: General introduction to ports and waterways; Port-city interaction and Corridors

Week 2: Integral port planning and Port layouts; Planning and design of port water areas

Week 3: Queuing theory; Terminal planning and design (within port layout)

Week 4: Container terminals + Port economics and investment analysis

Week 5: Evaluation assignment, Inland Navigation

Week 6: Ship-waterway interaction, Dimensioning of waterways and waterway elements

Week 7: Environment, Lecture Wrap up and Beyond

Week 8: Q&A session