CE-603 (A) · Water Resource Engineering/Official Syllabus
Water Resource Engineering (CE-603 (A)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Irrigation water requirement and Soil-Water-Crop relationship
- Irrigation, definition, necessity, advantages and disadvantages, types and methods
- Irrigation development
- Soils - types and their occurrence, suitability for irrigation purposes
- wilting coefficient and field capacity
- optimum water supply
- consumptive use and its determination
- Irrigation methods surface and subsurface, sprinkler and drip irrigation
- Duty of water, factors affecting duty and methods to improve duty
- suitability of water for irrigation
- crops and crop seasons, principal crops and their water requirement
- crop ratio and crop rotation
- intensity of irrigation
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Unit 2
Ground Water and Well irrigation
- Confined and unconfined aquifers, aquifer properties
- hydraulics of wells under steady flow conditions
- infiltration galleries
- Ground water recharge-necessity and methods of improving ground water storage
- Water logging-causes, effects and its prevention
- Salt efflorescence causes and effects
- Reclamation of water logged and salt affected lands
- Types of wells, well construction
- yield tests, specific capacity and specific yield
- advantages and disadvantages of well irrigation
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Unit 3
Hydrology
- Hydrological cycle
- precipitation and its measurement, recording and non recording rain gauges
- estimating missing rainfall data
- rain gauge net works
- mean depth of precipitation over a drainage area
- mass rainfall curves
- intensity-duration curves
- depth-area duration curves
- Infiltration and infiltration indices
- evaporation stream gauging, run off and its estimation
- hydrograph analysis
- unit hydrograph and its derivation from isolated and complex storms
- S-curve hydrograph
- synthetic unit hydrograph
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Unit 4
Canals and Structures
- Types of canals, alignment
- design of unlined and lined canals
- Kennedy's and Lacey's silt theories
- typical canal sections
- canal losses
- lining-objectives, materials used, economics
- Introductions to Hydraulic Structures viz. Dams, Spillways, Weirs, Barrages, Canal Regulation Structures
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Unit 5
Floods
- Types of floods and their estimation by different methods
- probability and frequency analysis
- flood routing through reservoirs and channels
- flood control measures
- economics of flood control
Reference Books
- Irrigation & Water Power Engg. — Punmia, Pandey, B.B. Lal
- Engg. Hydrology — K. Subhramanya — Tata Mc Graw Hills Publ. Co.
- Engg. Hydrology — J. NEMEC — Prentice Hall
- Hydrology for Engineers — Linsley, Kohler, Paulnus — Tata Mc.Graw Hill
- Hydrology & Flood Control — Santosh Kumar — Khanna Publishers
- Engg. Hydrology — H.M. Raghunath
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