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Course Description
In this course, Prof. Rajesh Srivastava gives 28 video lectures on Water Resources Engineering. Topics covered in this course are:
- Precipitation, Infiltration and Evapotranspiration:
- Forms of precipitation, measurement, depth-area-duration and intensity duration
- Frequency relations
- Evaporation: process, measurement, and estimation
- Infiltration: process, measurement, and estimation
- Evapotranspiration: measurement and estimation
- Runoff and Hydrographs:
- Rainfall Runoff correlations, Flow duration curve, Mass curve, Droughts and floods
- Factors affecting flow hydrograph, Unit hydrograph, its analysis, and S-curve hydrograph, Synthetic and instantaneous unit hydrographs
- Statistical analysis, Hydrologic Routing:
- Risk, reliability, and safety factor, Flood frequency studies, Flood forecasting, Rational method, Time Area curves, Design flood
- Channel and flood routing
- Groundwater Hydrology:
- Flow equations: Confined and unconfined flow
- Well hydraulics: Steady and unsteady flow, Well losses, Specific capacity
- Irrigation Engineering:
- Water requirement of crops
- Hydrologic aspects of irrigation system design
- Hydrologic Design:
- Design of culverts, detention ponds, storm water drains
- Economics of Water Resources systems