Engineering Hydrology
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The official GTU curriculum for Engineering Hydrology (subject code BE05006021) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 7 units, covering 46 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05006021)Unit 1 Introduction to Hydrology, Hydrologic cycle, Scope and applications,
- Water budget equation
- Precipitation and measurement
- Mean rainfall estimation
Unit 2 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Precipitation variability
- rainfall and snow measurement techniques
- design of precipitation gauging network
- consistency of rain record
- filling up of missing record
- estimation of mean areal rainfall
- IDF and DAD analysis
Unit 3 Hydrologic Abstractions
- Interception and depression storage Evaporation: Factors affecting
- measurement and estimation Evapotranspiration: measurement and estimation
- factors affecting infiltration
- measurement of infiltration
- empirical and analytical models of infiltration
Unit 4 Stream Flow
- Runoff process: Measurement of stream flow
- factors affecting stream flow
- Stage-discharge relationship
- Peak discharge estimation
- hydrograph analysis
- base flow separation
- unit hydrograph for stream flow estimation
- synthetic unit hydrograph
- hydrological modelling
Unit 5 Watershed Management
- Watershed and its characteristics
- Curve number method
- Soil erosion and estimates
- Watershed management techniques
- Erosion control
- Contributions of watershed management to the sustainable development goals
- drought analysis and management
- watershed simulation
Unit 6 Groundwater Hydrology
- Types of aquifers
- Flow and storage parameters
- Well hydraulics
- Groundwater flow modeling
- Hydrogeological and geophysical surveys
- Groundwater quality
- Contaminant transport modeling
- Sea water intrusion
Unit 7 Flood Routing
- Governing equations
- Reservoir flood routing
- Hydrologic routing: Muskingum method
- Estimation of flood
- Flood frequency analysis
- Gumbel’s method
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