IDRAULICA AMBIENTALE E GEOMORFOLOGIA

Academic Year 2020/2021 - 1° Year - Curriculum Gestione sostenibile del territorio agroforestale and Curriculum Pianificazione territoriale, ambientale e del paesaggio

Learning Objectives

• Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

  The goal is to teach the fundamentals necessary to solve a wide class of problems where hydrostatic or moving fluids are involved.

  In particular, the course will treat the design and verification of reservoirs, pipelines, natural and artificial channels (pipe-flow and open-channel-flow).

  This will enable students to approach problems related to water resource management, the mitigation of hydraulic and hydrogeological risk and the production of electricity from renewable sources

• ELEMENTI DI GEOLOGIA PER LA PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE

  The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the main geologicalprocesses responsible for the shape of the terrestrial landscape. Some basic elements will also be given for reading topographical and geological maps.

Course Structure

• Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

  The course is organized as follows:

  -traditional lectures, carried out using a participative approach in order to obatin the maximum involvement of the students;

  - practical exercises. Such excercis are supervised in order to be sure that all the students will learn during the classtime how to apply the most important concepts and methods to be used in the field of hydraulics;

  - periodic tests, aimed to verify the level of undertanding of the topic of the course and the problem solving capacity of the students;

  -field visits at building sites of hydraulic works and/or at the premises of public or privaty bodies involved in the management of water systems (Water Management Companies, Water Authorities, Irrigation Consortia, etc.).

  If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote way, the necessary changes can be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

• ELEMENTI DI GEOLOGIA PER LA PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE

  At the end of the course the students will acquire knowledge on the following topics:

  erosion processes and modeling of terrestrial relief;
  transport and sedimentation processes;

  global tectonics and shapes of the relief;
  lithologies and shapes of the relief;
  elements of topographic maps;
  elements of geological mapping;
  basics of stratimetry;
  relationships between strata structure and slope morphology;
  classification and macroscopic recognition of the main rock types.

Detailed Course Content

• Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
  • Introduction
  • Properties of the fluids
  • Static equilibrium of fluids
  • Fluid kinematics
  • The Bernoulli equation
  • Pipe flow
  • Open-channel flow,
• ELEMENTI DI GEOLOGIA PER LA PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE

  Part I: causes responsible for the shape of the terrestrial relief.

  Factors of terrestrial modelling; sediment transport and deposition processes; relationship between lithotypes and forms of the relief; tectonic processes and relief shapes.

  Part II: elements of cartography.

  Recognition of relief shapes on a topographic map; topographic profiles. Elements of a geological map; strata orientation; relationships between strata structure and slope morphology.

  Part III: lithogenic process; classification and macroscopic recognition of the main rocks.

  Volcanic, metamorphic, sedimentary processes; macroscopic classification schemes for rocks; macroscopic recognition of the main volcanic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.

Textbook Information

• Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

  1. M. Mossa, A.F. Petrillo: “Idraulica”, CEA Milano, 2013.

  2. D. Citrini, D. Noseda: “Idraulica”, CEA-Milano, 1987 .

  3. G. Alfonsi, E. Orsi: “Problemi di Idraulica e Meccanica dei Fluidi”, CEA Milano, 1984.

• ELEMENTI DI GEOLOGIA PER LA PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE

  1. Pompeo L. Casati - Scienze della terra vol.1 - Elementi di geologia generale

  2. Francesco Carraro - Geologia del quaternario. L'evoluzione geologica degli ambienti superficiali

  3. Mario Panizza - Elementi di geomorfologia. Pitagora ed.

  4. Dispense e “slides” fornite dal docenti