Subject Syllabus
CE603 (A) - Water Resource Engineering
CIVIL · Semester 6
Course Modules
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Irrigation, definition, necessity, advantages and disadvantages, types and methods; Irrigation developmentSoils - types and their occurrence, suitability for irrigation purposes, wilting coefficient and field capacity, optimum water supply, consumptive use and its determinationIrrigation methods surface and subsurface, sprinkler and drip irrigationDuty of water, factors affecting duty and methods to improve duty, suitability of water for irrigationCrops and crop seasons, principal crops and their water requirement, crop ratio and crop rotation, intensity of irrigation
Confined and unconfined aquifers, aquifer properties, hydraulics of wells under steady flow conditions, infiltration galleriesGround water recharge-necessity and methods of improving ground water storageWater logging-causes, effects and its prevention; Salt efflorescence causes and effectsReclamation of water logged and salt affected landsTypes of wells, well construction, yield tests, specific capacity and specific yield, advantages and disadvantages of well irrigation
Hydrological cycle, precipitation and its measurement, recording and non recording rain gaugesEstimating missing rainfall data, rain gauge net works, mean depth of precipitation over a drainage areaMass rainfall curves, intensity-duration curves, depth-area duration curvesInfiltration and infiltration indices, evaporation stream gauging, run off and its estimationHydrograph analysis, unit hydrograph and its derivation from isolated and complex storms, S curve hydrograph, synthetic unit hydrograph