CIVE632-COMPUTATIONAL HYDRAULICS AND HYDROLOGY
SPRING 2004
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION

Name: ______________________ S.S. No. ________________ Grade: _______

Instructions: Open notes. Use engineering paper. When you are finished, staple your work in sequence, and return this sheet with your work.

  1. What do overland flow and slow-rising flood waves have in common that they lend themselves to description by kinematic and diffusion waves?

  2. What are the three issues surrounding the kinematic wave controversy?

  3. What two kinds of errors arise in numerical modeling? Explain which one is related to stability, and which one to convergence.

  4. What is the purpose of the weighting factor used in implicit numerical schemes of partial differential equations?

  5. Why does the Muskingum-Cunge method work best at Courant number equal to 1?