WR 811
Course Name:
Hydrological Processes
Programme:
M.Tech(WREM)
Category:
Elective Courses (Ele)
Credits (L-T-P):
3(3-0-0)
Content:
- introduction to the major hydrological processes and field measurement techniques.
- Elements of evaporation phenomena and plant growth: Weather Phenomena (solar radiation and energy balance on the earth's surface, air temperature, wind speed, humidity of air and transport of water vapor in the air).
- Evaporation from water bodies, bare soil, vegetation (transpiration) and methods of Evaporation estimation (Penman, Penman-Monthieth, Hagreaves, Turc, etc).
- Interception, throughfall, depression storage.
- Unsaturated (vadose zone) phenomena: Infiltration, water flow and retention in the unsaturated zone and method of estimations, (Horton's model, Holtan model, Darcy equation, Richards's equation, Green-Apt equations, etc) and other empirical methods.
References:
Chow. V.T.,.Maidment. D.R, Mays L.W., Applied Hydrology,McGraw Hill,1988.
Maidment. D. R, Handbook of Hydrology, McGraw Hill,1993.
Department:
Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics
