Università Roma Tre

Applied Hydrology course introduces the student to groundwater and catchment-scale hydrological modeling. Students will address practical problems learning how to build hydrological models and perform hydrological studies for water resources management, and other applications.
This course is part of the master's degree program in "Civil Engineering for Protection from Natural Risks", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualifications for the protection from hydrogeological and seismic risks.
Within the framework of this course, the course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of 1) the main physical processes involved in water cycle; 2) fundamental issues related to water resources use; 3) measurement and analysis of hydrologic data; 4) hydrologic modeling of transport in aquifers and vadose zone; 5) hydrologic modeling of surface processes at the catchment scale; 6) main criteria to develop a complex hydrological model.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) identify basic requirments to perform a surface or subsurface hydrological study; 2) define appropriate, even complex, hydrological modelsto determine design quantities (e.g. rainfall, discharge); 3) calibrate and validate hydrological models; 4) perform numerical simulations to define different design scenarios in groundwater studies; 5) perform numerical simulations to estimate design quantities at the catchment scale; 6) prepare project report and drawings.