River Basin Modelling (WSE/HI/07/s)

Hydrology and Hydraulics

On completion of this module the participants are able to:

• understand and explain the multi-purpose nature of river basins and approaches for their integrated planning and management;
• know how to model flow processes in porous media;
• use MODFLOW to simulate groundwater flow in the saturated zone;
• know how to model hydrological processes in catchment rainfall-runoff;
• use NAM to simulate rainfall runoff in a natural catchment;
• know how to use MIKE-SHE to model both surface and groundwater flow in a natural catchment, including the unsaturated zone.

River Basin Management, A. van Griensven (IHE), W. van der Krogt (Deltares)
Introduction to the management of river basins; water resources; catchment yield; land use and agriculture; storage; groundwater; flood mitigation; irrigation; power generation; navigation; demand forecasting; dealing with droughts. Exercises and workshops with SWAT and RIBASIM.
Groundwater Modelling, A. Jonoski (IHE)
The continuum approach; definitions; Darcy's law; groundwater flow in the saturated zone: equations for 1D, 2D and 3D flow; modelling approaches; modelling protocol; contaminant transport through advection and diffusion; exercises and workshops with the MODFLOW software package to solve a water resources analysis problems: problem definition, model building, report
Catchment Modelling, M. Butts (DHI), A. Jonoski, I. Popescu (IHE)
Types of hydrological models: empirical/data-driven/black box; conceptual and physically based models. Focus on distributed physically based catchment modelling; introduction to the modelling exercises and workshops; presentation of MIKE-SHE software package and the catchments used for the exercises; 1): set up a conceptual model of a catchment & calibration from rainfall & discharge records; comparison of models with and without the river network; calibration trial. 2) influence of the saturated zone: inclusion of aquifers into the catchment model; running the model, performing a sensitivity analysis.; inclusion of a drainage network. Separate exercise on inclusion of unsaturated zone.

Formal lectures; classroom exercises; home assignments; exercises & workshops in computer lab

Lecture Notes:

• Price and van Griensven: River basin management
• Refsgard: Introduction to hydrological modelling:  Modelling of the processes of the land phase of the hydrological cycle
• PowerPoint slides:
• Jonoski: Groundwater modelling
• Butts: Catchment modelling

• Jonoski and Popescu: Catchment modelling with MIKE SHE (handout)
• van der Krogt: RIBASIM user manual
• van Griensven: SWAT (handout)

• A. Jonoski, PhD, MSc
• M.B. Butts, PhD
• A.B.K. van Griensven, PhD, MSc