Course detail
Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration
FAST-DS75Acad. year: 2020/2021
History and development of drainage structures, need and asset of drainage structures. watershed protection in water management and agriculture, drainage theory, surface and underground runoff, hydrotechnical calculations, modelling of the drainage process, design, operation and use of drainage structures
Theory of erosion processes, erosion factors, runoff modelling, consequences of concentrated runoff, water courses protection
Supervisor
Department
Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The student will obtain information about complex system of Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration in the watershed, focused on digital solution.
Prerequisites
Hydrology, Hydropedology,Landscape water management
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Not applicable.
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.Introduction of subject
2.Drainage assessment, water regime of wet soils
3.Kinds of drainage, surface drainage channel and its arrangement
4.Drainage, arrangement,deep and spacing of drains
5.Special kinds of drainage, konstruction of drains, parameters of drains
6.Wishmeier USLE equation
7.Erosion and sediment transport modells
8. SCS runoff curve number methods
9.Complex soil and water conservation
10.Technical and biotechnical methodes
11.Design of basic parameters of measures.
12.Terraces
13.Water resource protection, protection zone, revized zones
Aims
Detailed theoretical and practical introduction with complex system of landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration, soil erosion and flood control in the watershed and drainage, focused on digital solution of complex project of watershed protection and drainage.
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-E-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 2. year of study, winter semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-K-C-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 2. year of study, winter semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-K-E-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 2. year of study, winter semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-P-C-SI (N) Doctoral
branch VHS , 2. year of study, winter semester, 8 credits, compulsory-optional