After successful completion of the course, students are able to:
The participants are sensitized to practical problems in developing flow modes and to the needs for quality control.
The exercise is comprised of:
The following actions are scheduled/required:
Date
Action
30.08. – 04.10.
Enroll in TISS, TUWEL course starts 05.10.
until 13.10.
Upload of Exercise Nr. 1
21.10.
Tutorial videos available in TUWEL
Exercise Nr. 2 is handed out to the groups.
til 22.10.
Register for a 3-member group (or get sorted into one automatically)
from 22.10.
Enrollment for the intermediate presentations (time slots)
18.11.-20.11.
Intermediate presentations (webmeeting) of Exercise Nr. 2 by the groups. Exercise Nr. 3 wil lbe defined in the discussion - as a refinement of your existing model.
from 21.11.
Enrollment for the final presentations.
from 05.12.
Upload of your final model and final report (pdf).
09.12.-11.12.
Final presentations (webmeeting)
The exercise takes place ONLY in the WINTER SEMESTER, as provided in the curriculum!
Important Information for absolving the KW-Übung:
The exercise will be solved self-sustained on a WINDOWS-computer, including model setup, data recherche, report and presentation writing.
HECRAS is freeware. To help you with installing and running HECRAS, a scriptum and tutorial videos will be supplied. There will be no additional lectures for the KW-Übung.
Basic knowledge in hydraulics and hydraulic engineering is required and will not be repeated within the Übung.
A maximum of 30 point is possible. Components are:
Task
Relevance / Judgement
max. points
Exercise No. 1 (Model)
get registered for the course
-
Exercise No. 2 (kmz-Model)
Basic HECRAS model of your river section
4
Intermediate presentation
10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion
Expain how you build your model! What assumptions did you have to take? Are the model results plausible?
8
HECRAS model No. 2
Quality, accuray and detail of the model and results.
6
Final report No. 3
According to template. Complete report including Exercise No. 3, data, model setup, results and plausibility (discussion).
Final presentation
5 minutes + 10 minutes discussion
What was changed or refined?
Did it work and is the model plausible?
Imagine defending your work in front of your client.
Sum
30
The work will be carried out on computers (Windows only - please make use of the TU PC workstations, in case you don't have a private computer/laptop), including model-set up, data recherche, report writing and presentation design. The knowledge and use of appropriate software for these tasks is being expected.
