Water Resources Engineering Detailed Syllabus for B.Tech third year first sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Water Resources Engineering B.Tech 2016-2017 (R16) third year first sem is as follows.
B.Tech. III Year I Sem. L/T/P/C
Course Code:CE503PC 4/0/0/4
Pre-Requisites: Fluid Mechanics & HHM
Course Objectives: The objectives of the course is to study the concepts of
- Engineering Hydrology and its applications like Runoff estimation, estimation of design discharge and flood routing.
- Irrigation Engineering – Water utilization for crop growth and their designs.
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Analyze hydro-meteorological data
- Estimate abstractions from precipitation
- Compute yield from surface and subsurface basin
- Develop rainfall-runoff models
- Formulate and solve hydrologic flood routing models
- Estimate runoff, design discharge from catchment
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 – Adjustment of record -Rainfall Double Mass Curve. Runoff- Factors affecting Runoff – Runoff over a Catchment- Empirical and Rational Formulae. Abstraction from rainfall-evaporation, factors affecting evaporation, measurement of evaporation- Evapotranspiration- Penman and Blaney & Criddle Methods -Infiltration, factors affecting infiltration, measurement of infiltration, infiltration indices..
UNIT – II: Distribution of Runoff – Hydrograph Analysis Flood Hydrograph – Effective Rainfall – Base
Flow- Base Flow Separation – Direct Runoff Hydrograph Unit pulse and Unit step function – Unit Hydrograph, definition, limitations and applications of Unit hydrograph, derivation of Unit Hydrograph from Direct Runoff Hydrograph and vice versa – S-hydrograph, Synthetic Unit Hydrograph.
UNIT – III: Ground water Occurrence, types of aquifers, aquifer parameters, porosity, specific yield, permeability, transmissivity and storage coefficient, Darcy’s law, radial flow to wells in confined and unconfined aquifers. Types of wells,- Well Construction – Well Development.
TEXT BOOKS:
- Engineering Hydrology by K. Subramanya McGraw Education (India) Pvt Ltd, 2014.
- Engineering Hydrology by Jayarami Reddy, Laxmi publications pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
- Irrigation and Water Resources & Water Power by P. N. Modi, Standard Book House
REFERENCES:
- Engineering Hydrology by CSP Ojha, R. Brendtsson and P. Bhunya Oxford University Press,2010
- Irrigation and water power engineering by Punmia & Lal, Laxmi publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
- Applied hydrology by V.T. Chow, D.R. Maidment and L. W Mays McGraw Education (India) Pvt Ltd, 2014.
- Hydrology in Practice by E. M. Shaw, K. J. Beven, CRC Press, 2015
For all other B.Tech 3rd Year 1st Sem syllabus go to JNTUH B.Tech Civil Engineering 3rd Year 1st Sem Course Structure for (R16) Batch.
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