Infrastructures in Aqueducts (and related topics)

Here they are the video lectures about aqueducts' reservoirs, intakes, etc.

External aqueducts

Reservoirs

Aqueducts YouTube Videos

Here they are the videos of the aqueducts lectures.

Generalities

Distribution Network Topologies

Distribution Network Equations

Design requirements

Verification of the design

To sum up

Water supply systems and Stormwater management infrastructures 2017

This year I decide to renovate the teaching of my class of "Hydraulic Constructions".  Usually, under this name, one thinks to dams, levees, or other infrastructures. In fact, what I will  teach is how to design a water supply system for a city or for a city district, and how to design the infrastructures for storm water management.

This the foreseen schedule of the course. L Means a laboratory class, where the students are asked to calculate, think or project something. Actually it will be that I will do stuff for them, introducing some tools and asking them to repeat and complete the task on their dataset. Tentatively, it will be a "learning by doing approach" which I used also the last years but to a minor extent. 

I have 60 hours in total over thirteen weeks. So the schedule could be the following one

Storm waters

1. T - Introductory Class. 
• New goals for Urban hydrology
• The sewage systems devices
• Local control on the hydrological cycle
• The law of public works
• The past and the future
• Further readings
2. T - Statistical properties of ground precipitations. Mechanisms  of formation of precipitation. Ground based statistics. Extreme precipitations.  
• See the points 6-11 in the Precipitations post
• Further readings (Point 1-5 and 17 in the Precipitations' post)
3. L - Explorative data analysis. Investigating data with Python (or R).  
4. T - Extreme precipitations. Around the concept of return period. Extreme distributions. 
• See points 12-15 in the Precipitations post
• Further readings (Point 1-5 and 17 in the Precipitations' post)
5. L - Estimation of Extreme distributions with Python (or R)
6. T - Element for the design of storm water management infrastructures.  
• The storm water drainage network (SWDN)
• Urban cases
• Pipes (slides from Roberto Magini)
• The estimation of the flood wave (the IUH case) and the Hydraulic design of the SWDN
7. L - Short introduction to QGIS for representing urban infrastructures. 
• Introduction to QGIS by Elisa Stella and Daniele Dalla Torre. For other information about tools installation, see the bottom of the page.
• Using QGIS and GISWater to feed SWMM
• Material/Data of the lab
• Video classes on QGIS/GISWATER (discovered by Pasini & Rocari)
• Create subcatchments
• Homogenize the subcatchment layer and insert it in the database
• Geometric information subcatchments
• Average Slope
• Impervious
• Simp, Routeto
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJIGH-ndcJ4

1. T - Element for the design of storm water management infrastructures. - II 
• An example with a linear reservoir system 
• The so called "metodo italiano" (optional)
• Further readings
2. L - Simple estimations of the maximum discharge via Python
3. T - Pumping stormwaters.
4. L - Designing some part of a sewer network with SWMM and Python. 
• The Python Notebook is here
• The Data used in the notebook here
• Using QGIS and GISWater for creating the inputs for SWMM (YouTube  by Elisa Stella: Part I, II and III)

Clean water supply - Aqueducts

As a  general, simple and descriptive reference, the first six chapters of Maurizio Leopardi's book can be useful :

• Utilizzo Idropotabile
• Il trasporto in pressione
• Dimensionamento idraulico delle condotte
• Acquedotto con sollevamento meccanico
• Serbatoi
• Reti di distribuzione

Here the class lectures:

1. T - Aqueducts in 2020
• Equations for aqueducts networks
• Mass and energy Conservation
2. L - Introduction to EPANET (and related GIS)(YouTube2017)
3. T - Aqueducts' distribution networks: the water demand and some design indications)
• Equations for aqueducts network
4. T - External aqueducts
5. T - Introduction to intakes  for water supply
6. T - Water uptakes
7. L - Reservoirs
8. L - Design and verification of distribution networks with EPANET - 
9. T - Houses' infrastructures
10. T - Urban Drainage Systems
11. L - Design and verification of distribution networks with EPANET - I I (YouTube on Water Demand)

Tools

During the class I will introduce sever tools for calculations. 

• Python - Python is a modern programming languages. It will be used for data treatment, estimation of the idf curves of precipitation, some hydraulic calculation and data visualisation. I will use Python mostly as a scripting language to bind and using existing tools. 
• SWMM - Is an acronym for Storm Water Management System. Essentially it is a model for the estimation of runoff adjusted to Urban environment. I do not endorse very much its hydrology. However, it is the most used tools by colleagues who cares about storm water management, and I adopt it. It is not a tool for designing storm water networks, and therefore, some more work should be done with Python to fill the gaps.
• EPANET Is the tool developed by EPA to estimate water distribution networks. 
• LaTeX: il sistema per la scrittura e la composizione di testi matematici ed ingegneristici. Il testo di Lorenzo Pantieri e Tommaso Gordini è un piccolo gioiello. 

Installation Instructions (for Windows) by Daniele Della Torre:

SWMM: http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/epa-swmm-how-to-install-step-by-step/

GISWATER: http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/giswater-11-install-windows/

QGIS: http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/qgis-2-18-how-to-install-step-by-step-on-windows/

and this for the Java RE:

http://growworkinghard.altervista.org/install-jre-step-by-step-on-windows-march-2017/

Domande della prova intermedia 2017.