Course Details
Hydropedology
Academic Year 2022/23
DSB023 course is part of 4 study plans
DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year
DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year
DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year
DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year
Broadening of basic hydropedology knowledge.
Flow equations.
Hydraulic characteristics of soil.
Laboratory work - measurement and evaluation of soil hydraulic characteristics.
Variability of hydropedological quantities.
Soils geostatic.
Temperable flow.
Flow equations.
Hydraulic characteristics of soil.
Laboratory work - measurement and evaluation of soil hydraulic characteristics.
Variability of hydropedological quantities.
Soils geostatic.
Temperable flow.
Credits
8 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Entry Knowledge
Students will individually elaborate a seminar work from Engineering hydropedology in relation to the doctoral thesis.
Aims
Broadening of subject knowledge in selected problems of hydropedology, independent solution of hydropedology tasks in laboratories and theoretical knowledge aimed at water management problems
Basic Literature
ROWELL,D.L.: Soil Science, Methods and Applications, Longman Group UK, 2016, ISBN 13: 978-0-582-08784-2 (en)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav, NIELSEN, D.R.: Soil Hydrology, Catena Verlang, Germany, 1994 (en)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav a KURÁŽ, Václav a CÍSLEROVÁ, Milena.: Hydropedologie, Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2000 (cs)
KODEŠOVÁ, R: Modelování v pedologii. Skriptum ČZU, Praha 2005 (cs)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav, NIELSEN, D.R.: Soil Hydrology, Catena Verlang, Germany, 1994 (en)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav a KURÁŽ, Václav a CÍSLEROVÁ, Milena.: Hydropedologie, Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2000 (cs)
KODEŠOVÁ, R: Modelování v pedologii. Skriptum ČZU, Praha 2005 (cs)
Syllabus
1. Fundamentals of hydropedology.
2. Hydrostatic of soil – soil water potential.
3. Hydrodynamic of soil water.
4. Flow equations and their analysis.
5.–6. Hydraulic characteristics – approximating functions of retention curves, parametric evaluation of retention curves.
7. RETC program.
8. Infiltration.
9.–10. Variability of hydropedological quantities.
11. Hydropedological quantities as spatially random variables.
12.–13. Temperable flow – description of flow of dissolved substances and the analytical analysis of transport of dissolved substances.
2. Hydrostatic of soil – soil water potential.
3. Hydrodynamic of soil water.
4. Flow equations and their analysis.
5.–6. Hydraulic characteristics – approximating functions of retention curves, parametric evaluation of retention curves.
7. RETC program.
8. Infiltration.
9.–10. Variability of hydropedological quantities.
11. Hydropedological quantities as spatially random variables.
12.–13. Temperable flow – description of flow of dissolved substances and the analytical analysis of transport of dissolved substances.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of hydropedology from magister study programme, hydraulics, mathematics, physics,chemistry, probability theory and statistics.
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Fundamentals of hydropedology.
2. Hydrostatic of soil – soil water potential.
3. Hydrodynamic of soil water.
4. Flow equations and their analysis.
5.–6. Hydraulic characteristics – approximating functions of retention curves, parametric evaluation of retention curves.
7. RETC program.
8. Infiltration.
9.–10. Variability of hydropedological quantities.
11. Hydropedological quantities as spatially random variables.
12.–13. Temperable flow – description of flow of dissolved substances and the analytical analysis of transport of dissolved substances.
2. Hydrostatic of soil – soil water potential.
3. Hydrodynamic of soil water.
4. Flow equations and their analysis.
5.–6. Hydraulic characteristics – approximating functions of retention curves, parametric evaluation of retention curves.
7. RETC program.
8. Infiltration.
9.–10. Variability of hydropedological quantities.
11. Hydropedological quantities as spatially random variables.
12.–13. Temperable flow – description of flow of dissolved substances and the analytical analysis of transport of dissolved substances.