Course Details

Hydropedology

Academic Year 2024/25

DS73 course is part of 1 study plan

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

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic knowledge of hydropedology from magister study programme, hydraulics, mathematics, physics,chemistry, probability theory and statistics.

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
Students will individually elaborate a seminar work from Engineering hydropedology in relation to the doctoral thesis.

Basic Literature

CÍSLEROVÁ, M: Inženýrská hydropedologie. Skriptum ČVUT, Praha 1989
KODEŠOVÁ, R: Modelování v pedologii. Skriptum ČZU, Praha 2005
KUTÍLEK M. ET AL: Soil Hydrology. Catena Verlag: GeoEcology Publications 1994
ROWELL,D.L.: Soil Science, Methods and Applications, Longman Group UK, 2016, ISBN 13: 978-0-582-08784-2 (en)

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