Flood Management and Design (WSE/HERBD/10/e)

Working knowledge in topics such as Hydrology, River Dynamics, Water Resources Development, River System Management and Computational Hydraulics

• Familiarise participants with concepts and advances of flood risk management in relation to societal aspects, including flooding issues in the floodplain and coastal zone, management of flood risk, planning aspects and a variety of non-structural measures.
• Familiarise participants with concepts and advances in tools used for flood modelling and flood forecasting.
• Introduction of the principles of flood frequency analysis and risk based approaches to design of hydraulic works.

Flood Risk Management (M. Werner)
Introduction to floods and flooding. Safety concepts and (holistic) approaches to flood risk mitigation regarding protection levels, flood losses, risk assessment and design criteria. Floodplain hydrology and flood waves. Coastal/estuarine flooding processes. Relation between flood management, land-use and physical planning. Concepts of nonstructural flood mitigation, focussing on flood proofing, early warning and forecasting, flood response and recovery, and comprehensive emergency management.
Flood Modelling (M. Werner, K. de Bruijn)
Concepts and principles of flood modelling, constraints and common modelling tools and instruments. Computer exercise on flood risk mapping in combination with 1D, 2D and integrated 1D-2D hydrodynamic models & GIS.
Deterministic and Probabilistic Design (P. van Gelder)
Introduction to deterministic and probabilistic design; safety and risks. Principles; failure risks; events and fault trees; comparison with traditional design approaches. Applications to river & coastal engineering structures; flood defences; river training and bank protection works. Exercise on the application of probabilistic design methods to hydraulic structures..

Where possible lectures and exercises will be given in conjunction with Module 10 of the Hydroinformatics programme

Lectures, exercises in computer lab, individual assignments

• Werner, M & Douben, N., 2008. Flood Management. UNESCO-IHE Lecture notes.
• Vrijling, J.K., 1996. Probabilistic design of flood defences. UNESCO-IHE Lecture notes.

• M.G.F. Werner, PhD, MSc
• Dr Ir P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder