Course Details
Hydropedology
Academic Year 2023/24
DS73 course is part of 2 study plans
D-P-C-SI (N) / VHS Summer Semester 1st year
D-K-C-SI (N) / VHS 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
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Broadening of subject knowledge in selected problems of hydropedology, independent solution of hydropedology tasks in laboratories and theoretical knowledge aimed at water management problems
Knowledge
Students will individually elaborate a seminar work from Engineering hydropedology in relation to the doctoral thesis.
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.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
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