Preliminary hydraulic study of the Po river in urban area through a steady flow simulation with HEC-RAS software and potential anthropogenic impact of an hydroelectric implant on the landscape

This report constitutes a preliminary hydraulic study of the river Po in the urban area of Turin, particularly in the section between the confluence with the stream Sangone and the confluence with the river Dora Riparia. The purpose of the study is to model from the point of view of the hydraulic behavior of the river, by making use of geometrical data relating to river sections and hydrological information about Po basin. The analysis has been supported by use of the hydraulic modeling software HEC-RAS (Hydrologic Engineering Center - River Analysis System), a very used software in the application field of hydraulic engineering, which allowed to simulate the behavior of the river in its schemes characteristic of flow rate, and numerically to derive the physical variables that determine the hydraulic phenomena and of transport of matter.