1. Legislation: The EU directives and Italian regulations for river engineering and basin reclamation: flood risk  management and environmental impact mitigation.

2. Fluvial Morphology  and fluvial forms: impact on river engineering

3) Deisgn discharge in river engineering works and residual flood risk management. The design freebord, Recall of flood frequency analysis: regional and local analysis, direct and indirect methods. Impact of climate and land cover change on flood risk. Distributed and lunped Hydrological models for surface runoff and flood routing. GIS application for retrieving river basin parameters  

4. Flood risk definition. Flood Hazard  in urbanized and rural environments , flood vulnerability and damages. recall of flood routing models, infrastructure impacts on backwater profiles, internal and external boundary conditions, the role of rigid and flexible vegetation on the roughness coefficient.

5. Mapping  inundated areas, hydraulic and geomorphologic methods

6. Solid Transport in river stream.  Source of fluvial sediment, model for river basin erosion assessment, Soil Slip and effect of sil hydrology and vegetation cover, process of solid transport: suspended and bed transport,  The  De Saint Venant Exner equations; river bed erosion and aggradations. Sediment Initial motion condition: dynamic and cinematic approach, the Shields abacus application from laboratory to field applications. Solid discharge estimates: models on initial motion excess discharge and velocity, probabilistic models.  Design discharges for equilibrium river bed profile, Measuring and Monitoring solid transport for river maintenance, solid transport effects on hydraulics structures and works. River Bed forms and their effects on stream head losses.

7. Debris flow: definition, formation and propagation, debris dam and debris retention basins

8.  Hydraulic works in mountain creek for flood risk mitigation: talweg erosion and aggrading  problems; assessing the talweg equilibrium profile, design of control drop structures, hydraulic shear stress analysis, hydraulic and structural design;   banks defenses with rip rap and wall techniques; groins.  Debris flow and woody debris check dam; hydraulic and structural design.

8. Hydraulic works in down valley river for flood risk mitigation. A)  Increasing discharge maximum capacity for river reach; levees hydraulic and structural problems, analysis and design criteria, groins for river bank protection and low flow section stabilization, bank revetments using riprap and biotechnical  techniques. B) flood peak discharge reduction using retention basins; in stream, off stream, and in series retention basins; hydraulic effects on the flood hydrograph and river streams; assessment of design parameters;  efficiency of a retention basins; retention basin verification for flood hydrograph at maximum peak discharge and maximum volume; retention basin hydraulic structures accessories. C) Diversion and flood way channels; design parameters , hydraulic problems and solution;

9. Hydraulics works, enviromental systems and maintenance. General design criteria, interaction between fluvial hydraulic works and river ecosystem.

10. Non structural flood defenses for increasing territory resilience. The river monitoring and warning system; flood forecast system, false and missed alarms, the ahead warning time and the preventive protection actions; citizen preparedness and civil protection plans.

The exam is a oral discussion on the topic expalined during the course and also on the laboartory report. This latter reports, in a redable form, each laboratory  activities   done during the semester.

The laboratory report have to be delivered at least one working week before the exam 

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