Water Resource Courses

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Hydraulic design procedures for culverts, dams, spillways, outlet works, and river control works. Drop structures, water intakes, bridge crossings.

prereq: CEGE 4501, upper division CSE student, Grad student or instructor consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3502, upper division CSE or grad student 

Description

Theories of flow in open channels, including gradually varied and rapidly varied flows, steady and unsteady flows. Computational methods for unsteady open channel flows, applications to flood routing. Introduction to moveable bed mechanics.

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F only

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3101, CEGE 3501

Description

This course will focus on understanding the processes that dictate chemical fate in surface waters, including

air-water transfer, adsorption, and biological and abiotic degradation. Students will evaluate the kinetics of

these processes by interpreting experimental data. They will also characterize transport in surface waters by

building theoretical and computational models from scratch that incorporate advection, diffusion and

dispersion transport processes. Students will develop finite difference solutions to advection-diffusion-reaction

equations, using ideal and non-ideal reactor theory, to describe the ultimate fate of pollutants in surface water

systems such as rivers, lakes, and estuaries. Fate and transport of organic pollutants (such as pesticides and

pharmaceuticals), as well as biochemical oxygen demand and nutrient pollution, will be studied.

Prereq: CEGE 3101, CEGE 3501, or instructor consent

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 4501 or BBE 5513, upper division CSE

Description

Urban hydrology for small watersheds and the management of storm water quality and quantity.

prereq: CEGE 4501or BBE 5513, upper division CSE or grad student or instructor consent

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE undergraduate jr or sr or CEGE graduate student

Description

This course will provide the theoretical and quantitative basis for understanding the interactions between the water cycle, vegetation, soil biogeochemistry, and the atmosphere. A main focus of the course will be on modeling the water and carbon dynamics across the soil-plant-atmosphere system. We will provide probabilistic descriptions of this system at the daily, seasonal, and interannual timescales by incorporating various sources of randomness and non-stationarity within the environment, particularly those from rainfall. These concepts and tools will be discussed in the context of sustainable management of water resources and terrestrial ecosystems, especially in view of the changes in the hydrological regime from climate change and societal pressures.

prereq: MATH 2373, MATH 2374 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3502 or equivalent

Description

During this class the physical principles of energy conversion from alternative resources as wind, hydro and solar will be  presented and discussed, with an emphasis on fluid mechanics and geophysical flows (atmospheric boundary layer, rivers, tidal flows).

We will start with the resource assessment devoted to quantify the available energy in the environment (wind, rivers, and sun).  Each energy resource module will include basic economic principles and assumption enabling the quantification of the efficiency and the costs of energy transformation, as well as an estimate of environmental effects (when possible).

We will focus on the details on wind, streams, wave and solar power using conservation equations and basic principles of  thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

prereq: CEGE 3502 or equivalent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CSE Grad Student

Description

This class concerns ways in which relatively straightforward particle-scale phenomenology is directly related to larger-scale behaviors of concern to environmental and engineering processes.  These larger scale behaviors include pattern formation driven by cooperative sorting and advection dynamics.  They also include quasi-static and dynamic non-linear responses to stresses and other forcing.  Applications we discuss include particle transport in rivers, wetlands reclamation, pavement compaction, and industrial mixing. 

As many large-scale and small-scale phenemonelogy can be counter-intuitive without experience, the in-class work is supplemented by two sets of hand-on activities. (1) students will explore these phenomenology in physical laboratories and (2) students will explore details unattainable in the physical laboratory by modifying existing computational simulations. (e.g., behavior in zero gravity, chaotic particle pathways, small-scale structures in colloidal suspensions).  Minimal prior programming experience is expected.  Programming assignments will be designed to be flexible for students of all levels of such experience.

Prereqs: Graduate student in CSE or permission of instructor and/or CEGE 3502, MATH 2373, MATH 2374

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

The course presents fundamentals of probability theory, statistical learning, and physics of remotes sensing to increase understanding and technical knowledge of undergraduate and graduate students about Earth data analysis and remote sensing. 

Prereqs: CEGE 4501 is recommended 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3502 or AEM 4201 or ChEn 3005, upper division CSE or grad 

Description

Environmental fluid mechanics is the study of the interaction of fluid flows that occur in aquatic ecosystems with the growth and behavior of living organisms.

prereq: CEGE 3502 or AEM 4201 or ChEn 3005, upper division CSE or grad students or instructor consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Examples of free and moving boundary problems: metal solidification, filling, polymer molding, flow in porous media, ground freezing. Solutions: analytical, fixed finite difference, fixed finite element, front tracking schemes, general deforming finite element methods.

prereq: CEGE 8401 or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Basic laws of mass, energy, and momentum transport in environmental fluid flow.  Exact and approximate solutions for viscous flow.  Irrotational flow; gravity waves.  Similitude and inspectional analysis.  Laminar boundary layers and slender flows.  Application to engineering and environmental problems.

prereq: CEGE 3502 or equiv or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Reynolds equations.  Developed and developing turbulent boundary layers and slender flows, and their interaction with inviscid flow.  Jets, plumes, wakes and shear layers.  Statistical description of turbulence; data analysis.

prereq: CEGE 8501 or instr consent

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Principles of intraphase and interfacial chemical transport and fate in the environment, specifically the processes of diffusion, dispersion, and convection. Application to surface water and atmospheric mixing, dispersion in groundwater, and transport between these media.

prereq: CEGE 3502, CEGE 3501 or equiv or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Analysis and synthesis of hydrologic series and systems; derived distributions; uncertainty and risk analysis; flood frequency analysis; multivariate time series analysis; correlation and spectral analysis; series of long-range dependence; linear estimation; geostatistics; sampling networks; hydrologic forecasting.

prereq: Stat 3021 or equiv or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Notions of scale-invariance, scaling, and multiscaling in geophysical processes; methods of multiscale analysis; wavelet transforms; time-frequency-scale analysis and fractal analysis. Applications in atmospheric, hydrologic, and geomorphologic processes.

prereq: CEGE 8506

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Fluid mechanics of  microbiological processes in lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Small-scale fluid motion, nutrient uptake, growth kinetics, ecosystem metabolism, scaling, lab/field microstructure measurements.

prereq: CEGE 3502 or equiv

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Particle motion in fluids.  Criteria for incipient motion.  Formulations for bedload and suspended load.  Bedform mechanics and hydraulic resistance relations.  Channel stability, aggradation and degradation, alluvial stream morphology.

prereq: CEGE 3502 and CEGE 4501 or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Land-atmosphere interactions and turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), the lowest part of the atmosphere. ABL development and dynamics. Turbulence, surface energy balance, spectral analysis, similarity theory. Flow over homogeneous and heterogeneous surfaces. Atmospheric stability, measurement, simulation of turbulent fluxes.

prereq: CSE or COAFES grad student or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Introduction to hydrologic transport and water quality simulation in natural water systems. Deterministic, process-oriented water quality model development. Mixed cell models, advection, turbulent diffusion/dispersion. Chemical/biological kinetics in water quality models. Application of water quality models to management problems.

prereq: One sem grad work or instr consent

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Models for transport/transformation of pollutants, nutrients, particulates, ecosystems, etc., from recently completed theses, articles, or research in progress. Students review assigned recent papers, make presentations, and analyze a topic of their choice.

prereq: One sem grad work or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Description

Lab and field methods and instruments for measuring hydraulic pressure, velocity, and discharge.

prereq: CEGE 3502 or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 4 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: CSE or CFANS grad student

Description

Finite difference methods, their application to solution of one-/two-dimensional problems in environmental fluid dynamics. Stability, convergence, consistency, and accuracy of numerical schemes. Navier-Stokes equations, their physical meaning, and their numerical solution. Turbulence modeling: RANS and LES.

prereq: grad student in CSE or COAFES or instr consent 

Course Detail

Units: 3 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Lecture Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: Gradaute Student

Description

Background material required to participate in a stream restoration project. How to assimilate geologic, hydrologic, and ecological data at watershed and reach scales to plan a restoration project and evaluate/critique existing stream restoration projects.

Course Detail

Units: 2 units

Grading Basis: A-F or audit

Course Components: Laboratory Required

Enrollment Information

Enrollment Requirement: Grad Student, CEGE 8601

Description

Field experience, group design project. Students provide a stream restoration context for each other's elective coursework, complete critical assessments of stream restoration projects, and design a stream restoration site.

prereq: CEGE 8601, or EEB 8601, or ESCI 8601