Urban Channel Design

Urban Flood Channel Design And Culvert Hydraulics

This course was offered in May 2004 and produced 16 engineers on the waiting list. The second session will be offered in the City Conference Room, City of Aurora on July 8 and 9 as small group.

This course is one of the four storm water design courses that lead to a CU-Denver Storm Water Hydrologist Certificate. The course will be presented as an intensive computer aided workshop on channel designs using the computer models, UDCHANNEL, UDTPFLOW, and UDCULVERT. The attendant will receive a 100 to 150 page class notes with the computer software packages. The course is designed for engineers in the areas of hydraulics, hydrology, storm water, floodplain, irrigation, and water supply. In two days, Instructors will cover 20 subjects with slides shows for illustrations and hands-on workshops to learn how to use the software. The goal of this course is to deliver the working knowledge for next-day operations.

Course Topics

(1) Review of Hydraulic Principles (2) Uniform Flow, Critical Flow, Rating Curve, (3) Most Efficient X-section(4) Intro to UDCHANNEL/ UDTPFLOW Models, (5) Channel Grade Control—drops (6) Grass Channel Design (7) Riprap Protection (8) Concrete Channel (9) Back Water Profile (10) Hydraulic Jumps (11) Composite Channel Design (12) Intro to UDCULVERT (13) Culvert Design (14) Transition Design (15) Steep Channel – Pulsating Flow (16) Oblique Jumps at a Bend (17) Design of Curve Reach,(18) Cross Waves (19) Unsteady Flow (20) Kinematic Wave Routing Schemes

Instructors

James C.Y. Guo, P.E., Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver. He has over 25 years of engineering experience in urban drainage planning and design. Dr. Guo has published 60 some technical papers, three technical books, many chapters, and more than 10 computer models in the area of storm water management and urban drainage designs. Many of Dr. Guo's research products have been converted into design criteria and accepted by Denver, Las Vegas, and Sacramento metropolitan areas

Ken A. MacKenzie, P.E. is a hydraulic engineer in the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, Denver, Colorado. Mr. MacKenzie is experienced with the design procedures for urban drainage facilities. He reviews stormwater studies and also inspects construction projects in the field. Since 2001, he has participated in the development of computer models for urban drainage and flood control designs, including UDCHANNEL for channel design and UDCULVERT for culvert sizing.