Hydraulics

• Lecture notes: Notes (in French) (version 16.1 from 30/01/2022).
• To deepen the mathematical developments, a supplement is available.
• Slides (in French)
• chapitre 1 : Saint-Venant equations (shallow water equations).
• chapitre 2 : floods
• chapitre 3 : dambreaks
• chapitre 4 : waves

• session 1: initiation to Iber (flume flow).
• session 2: study of flooding using Iber (on the River Navisence, VS). Data provided from private server.
• session 3: dambreak using Iber. Data provided from private server.
• session 4: flood propagation avec Iber (on the River Navisence, VS). Data provided from private server.
• session 5: kinematic wave approximation using Matlab (application to the River Navisence, VS). Data provided from private server. matlab script

Further information on iber:

• computing a dam break with Iber.
• pre- and post-processing data using QGis.

Students are assessed on the basis of an oral exam (50% project + 50% oral). The oral examination includes 3 types of questions: a general question on the fundamentals (bachelor’s level, basic knowledge of hydraulics: calculation of a steady state, etc.), a question on the material seen during the semester; a broader question on how to best solve an engineering problem.

• Floods and dams
  • Marche, C., Barrage, crues de rupture et protection civile, Presses Internationales Polytechniques, Montréal, 2004.
  • ICOLD, Étude d’onde de submersion de barrage, synthèse et recommandations, International Commission on Large Dams, Paris, 1998.
• Dams and embankments
  • ICOLD, Évaluation du risque dans la gestion de la sécurité du barrage, International Commission on Large Dams, Paris, 1998.
  • Peyras, L., and P. Mériaux, Retenues d’altitude, Quæ éditions, Versailles, 2009.
  • Royet, P., Sécurité des barrages en service, Cemagref édition, Antony, 1994.
  • Degoutte, G., Les déversoirs sur digues fluviales, Editions Quae, Versailles, 2012.
  • Sinniger, R.O., and W.H. Hager, Constructions hydrauliques, 439 pp., Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, 1989 ; Hager, W.H., et A. Schleiss, Constructions hydrauliques: écoulements stationnaires, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, 2009.
  • Schleiss, A., and H. Pougatsch, Les barrages : du projet à la mise en service, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, 2011.
• Hydraulics
  • Thual, O, Hydrodynamique de l’environnement, Presses de l’Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 2010
  • Graf, W.H., et M.S Altinakar, Hydraulique fluviale, PPUR, Lausanne, 1996. Voir chapitre 5.
  • Degoutte, G., Diagnostic, aménagement et gestion des rivières – hydraulique et morphologie fluviales appliquées, Lavoisier, Paris, 2006.
  • Chanson, H., The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction, Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, Amsterdam, 2004. Voir chapitres 13 à 17.
• Hydrology
  • Spreafico, M., R. Weingartner, M. Barben, and A. Ryser, Evaluation des crues dans les bassins versants de Suisse, OFEG, Berne, 2003.
  • Hingray, B., B. Picouet, and A. Musy, Hydrologie 2 : une science pour l’ingénieur, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romands, Lausanne, 2009.
  • Meylan, P., A.-C. Favre, and A. Musy, Hydrologie fréquentielle, 173 pp., Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, 2008.
  • Musy, A., and C. Higy, Hydrologie 1. Une science de la nature, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne, 2004.
• Numerical methods
  • Wu, W., Computational River Dynamics, Taylor \& Francis, London, 2007.
  • Goncalvès, E., Résolution numérique (cours de l’INPG, Grenoble, 2005).
  • LeVeque, R.J., Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2007.
  • LeVeque, R.J., Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1992.
  • LeVeque, R.J., Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
  • Toro, E.F., Shock-Capturing Methods for Free-Surface Shallow Flows, Wiley, Chichester, 2001.

Computational hydraulics

• iber computational hydraulic code developed by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. See above for an initation to Iber.
• ClawPack is a Fortran 77 library developed by Randall LeVeque (University of Washington) in collaboration with other people.
• Basement a computational hydraulic code developed at VAW (ETHZ).
• Mascaret developed by EDF.
• HEC RAS”: 1D computational tool. 2DVersion (beta).
• NAYS2DH 2D computational tool including sediment transport and bed morphology evolution, developed by the University of Hokkaido (Yasuyuki Shimizu), part of the i-Ric codes.
• Telemac developed by EDF.
• Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering (CCHE) : CCHE1D et CCHE2D codes.
• Mike Hydro River (superseding Mike 11).
• Delft 3D and SOBEK developed by Delft Hydraulics.

• OFEN report on Swiss rivers (in German).
• OFEN report on dams.
• OFEN report on small dams.
• wave atlas.
• Rudolf Müller’s slides on dams.
• Dam history. (Comité français des barrages et réservoirs)
• IAHR webpage on tsunamis.
• dam failures across the world
• Dambreak cases

Recent events

• Lake Bib Bay (Missouri, USA, March 2004).
• Taum Sauk (Missouri, USA, Dec. 2005).
• Marmot dam on the Sandy River (Oregon, USA, 2007).
• Damage to the Oroville dam’s spillway (California, USA, Feb. 2017). Spillway in 2011.
  spillway in 2017.