Ground Water & Hydraulics Civil 7th Sem Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Professional Elective-3)

Ground Water & Hydraulics detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CV742), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other civil 7th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Civil 7th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. For all other Professional Elective-3 subjects do refer to Professional Elective-3. The detail syllabus for ground water & hydraulics is as follows.

Course Objectives:

This course will enable students To characterize the properties of ground water and aquifers. To quantify the ground water flow. To locate occurrence of ground water and augment ground water resources. To synthesize ground water development methods.

Module 1

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Module 2

Fundamentals of Ground Water Flow: Aquifer parameters, specific yield and specific retention, porosity, storage coefficient, derivation of the expression, Darcy’s law, hydraulic conductivity, coefficient of permeability and intrinsic permeability, transmissibility, permeability in isotropic, unisotropic layered soils, steady one dimensional flow: cases with recharge.

Module 3

Well Hydraulics: Steady Flow, Radial flow in confined and unconfined aquifers, pumping test Unsteady Flow, General equation, derivation; thesis method, Cooper and Jacob method, Chow’s method, solution of unsteady flow equations, leaky aquifers (only introduction), interference of well, image well theory.

Module 4

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Module 5

Ground Water Development: Types of wells, methods of construction, tube well design, dug wells, pumps for lifting water, working principles, power requirement, Conjunctive use, necessity, techniques and economics.
Ground Water Recharge: Artificial recharge, groundwater runoff

Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will be able to:

• Find the characteristics of aquifers.
• Estimate the quantity of ground water by various methods.
• Locate the zones of ground water resources.
• Select particular type of well and augment the ground water storage.

Course Objectives:

1. Engineering knowledge
2. Problem analysis
3. Interpretation of data

Text Books:

1. H.M. Raghunath, Ground Water, Wiley Eastern Publication, New Delhi.
2. K. Todd, Ground Water Hydrology, Wiley and Sons, New Delhi.
3. Bower. H., Ground Water Hydrology McGraw Hill, New Delhi.

Reference Books:

1. Garg Satya Prakash, Ground Water and Tube Wells, Oxford and IBH, New Delhi.
2. W. C. Walton, Ground Water Resources and Evaluation McGraw Hill, Delhi.
3. Michel, D. M., Khepar, S. D., Sondhi, S. K., Water Wells and Pumps McGraw Hill, Delhi.

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of BE Civil, 2017 regulation do visit Civil 7th Sem syllabus for 2017 Regulation.

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