Water Resources Engineering

Overview

Precipitation, Infiltration and Evapotranspiration
Forms of precipitation, measurement, depth-area-duration and intensity
duration- frequency relations
Evaporation -- process, measurement, and estimation
Infiltration -- process, measurement, and estimation
Evapotranspiration -- measurement and estimation
Runoff and Hydrographs
Rainfall Runoff correlations, Flow duration curve, Mass curve, Droughts and floods
Factors affecting flow hydrograph, Unit hydrograph, its analysis, and S-
curve hydrograph, Synthetic and instantaneous unit hydrographs
Statistical analysis, Hydrologic Routing
Risk, reliability, and safety factor, Flood frequency studies, Flood
forecasting, Rational method, Time Area curves, Design flood
Channel and flood routing
Groundwater hydrology
Flow equations -- Confined and unconfined flow
Well hydraulics -- Steady and unsteady flow, Well losses, Specific capacity
Irrigation Engineering
Water requirement of crops
Hydrologic aspects of irrigation system design
Hydrologic design
Design of culverts, detention ponds, storm water drains
Economics of Water Resources systems