Capacity-Building to National Staff of the University of Mosul, Dams & Water Resources Department

The aim of the project is to roll out several workshops and short courses in the field of hydromechanics and flood risk management as follows: 1. Trainings on Flood risk management: Flood risks have become the forefront of concerns of people at Mosul City after disastrous flood events. Recently, a huge economic damage at Mosul City has been reported due to floods caused by the Tigris River and local torrential rainstorms. The level of concerns has been rapidly increased among civilians after reporting a serious damage in Mosul Dam foundation. Thus, understanding of vulnerable locations and flood paths in urban areas and river floodplains is imperative to minimize damages and to protect the civilian lives. Flood risk management tasks ranges from the estimation, prediction and analysis of flood hazards through their societal and potential resulting consequences and seeks to synchronize actions at various levels of government to mitigate risk. The main objectives of this training course are to share best-of-art knowledge and international practices to implement flood risk management strategies through training in how to build a floodplain numerical model. 2. Trainings on hydromechanics and hydrodynamics fundamentals: Training on hydromechanics and hydrodynamics fundamentals refer to advanced concepts in the field of hydraulics and fluid mechanics and their implementation in more sophisticated modelling schemes, such as computer-based river modelling and management. These concepts implicitly include a variety of topics related to characteristics of flow in open channel and river systems, sediment transport, river hydrodynamics, etc. Regardless of the method and tool types, understanding the model formulation for any type of problem is very important for researchers and engineers of Mosul University.