Course detail
Hydropedology
FAST-DS73Acad. year: 2020/2021
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
Supervisor
Department
Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will individually elaborate a seminar work from Engineering hydropedology in relation to the doctoral thesis.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of hydropedology from magister study programme, hydraulics, mathematics, physics,chemistry, probability theory and statistics.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
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
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Not applicable.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Not applicable.
Language of instruction
Czech
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
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
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
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme D-P-C-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 1. year of study, summer semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-K-C-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 1. year of study, summer semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-K-E-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 1. year of study, summer semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-P-E-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 1. year of study, summer semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional