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WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING-I
UNIT I
Introduction to engineering hydrology and its applications, Hydrologic cycle, types and forms of precipitation, rainfall measurement, types of rain gauges, computation of average rainfall over a basin, processing of rainfall data.
UNIT-II
Abstraction from rainfall-evaporation, factors affecting evaporation, measurement of evaporation-evapotranspiration-Infiltration, factors affecting infiltration, measurement of infiltration, infiltration indices. Runoff-components of runoff, factors affecting runoff, stream gauging, effective rainfall, separation of base flow.
UNIT-III
Unit Hydrograph, definition, and limitations of applications of Unit hydrograph, derivation of Unit Hydrograph,
S-hydrograph, IUH, Synthetic Unit Hydrograph.
UNIT-IV
Design Discharge, Computation of design discharge-rational formula, SCS method, flood frequency analysis-Gumbel’s method, log pearson III method, basic concepts of flood routing-hydraulic and hydrologic routing, channel and reservoir routing.
UNIT-V
Groound water Occurrence, types of aquifers, aquifer parameters, porosity, specific yield, permeability, transmissivity and storage coefficient, types of wells, Darcy’s law, radial flow to wells in confined and unconfined aquifers.
UNIT-VI
Necessity and Importance of Irrigation, advantages and ill effects of Irrigation, types of Irrigation, methods of application of Irrigation water, Indian agricultural soils, methods of improving soil fertility, preparation of land for Irrigation, standards of
quality for Irrigation water.
UNIT-VII
Soil-water-plant relationship, vertical distribution of soil moisture, soil moisture constants, soil moisture tension, consumptive use, estimation of consumptive use, Duty and delta, factors affecting duty, depth and frequency of Irrigation, irrigation efficiencies.
UNIT-VIII
Classification of canals, design of Irrigation canals by Kennedy’s and Lacey’s theories, balancing depth of cutting, canal lining.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Engineering Hydrology by Jayaram Reddy, Laxmi publications pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
2. Irrigation and water power engineering by Punmia & Lal, Laxmi publications pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
REFERENCES:
1. Elementary hydrology by V.P.Singh, PHI publications.
2. Irrigation and Water Resources & Water Power by P.N.Modi, Standard Book House.
3. Irrigation Water Management by D.K. Majundar, Printice Hall of India.
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