Abstract: | Precipitation, Infiltration and Evapotranspiration (8 Lectures)
• Forms of precipitation, measurement, depth-area-duration and intensity duration- frequency relations • Evaporation -- process, measurement, and estimation • Infiltration -- process, measurement, and estimation • Evapotranspiration -- measurement and estimation
Runoff and Hydrographs (8 Lectures)
• Rainfall Runoff correlations, Flow duration curve, Mass curve, Droughts and floods • Factors affecting flow hydrograph, Unit hydrograph, its analysis, and S- curve hydrograph, Synthetic and instantaneous unit hydrographs
Statistical analysis, Hydrologic Routing (7 Lectures)
• Risk, reliability, and safety factor, Flood frequency studies, Flood forecasting, Rational method, Time Area curves, Design flood • Channel and flood routing
Groundwater hydrology (5 Lectures)
• Flow equations -- Confined and unconfined flow • Well hydraulics -- Steady and unsteady flow, Well losses, Specific capacity
Irrigation Engineering (6 Lectures)
• Water requirement of crops • Hydrologic aspects of irrigation system design
Hydrologic design (6 Lectures) • Design of culverts, detention ponds, storm water drains • Economics of Water Resources systems |