Hydrology And Watershed Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Hydrology And Watershed Management (subject code ME01033011) as prescribed for C(RE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 71 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 (ME01033011)Unit 1 Watershed Hydrology
- Hydrologic processes
- Occurrence and Variability of rainfall in India
- Surface & Sub-surface water resources in India
- Mass curve
- Depth Area Duration curve
- Intensity Frequency Duration curve
- most probable flood
- standard project flood
- measurement of stream flow
- Stage - discharge rating curve
- sediment rating curve
- Hydrograph analysis
- unit hydrograph theory
- Synthetic hydrograph
Unit 2 Watershed Management
- Concept of watershed
- watershed management
- classification of Watersheds
- Drain basin characteristic
- Geomorphology of watersheds - Linear
- aerial and relief aspects of watersheds - stream order
- drainage density and stream frequency
- exercise on geomorphic parameters of watersheds
- Different stakeholders and their relative importance
- watershed management policies and decision making
- Sustainable integrated watershed management
- Interlinking of Rivers
- Soil erosion and conservation
- Watershed Management Practices in Arid and Semi- arid Regions
- Integrated water resources management
- conjunctive use of water resources
- rainwater harvesting
- roof catchment system
- Community participation
- Private sector participation
- Institutional issues
- Integrated development
- Water legislation and implementations
- Case studies
Unit 3 Flood and drought
- Flood management
- flood routing through channels and reservoir
- flood control and reservoir operation
- case studies on flood damage
- Stormwater management
- design of drainage system
- Drought Management
- Drought assessment and classification
- drought analysis techniques
- drought mitigation planning
- Water Conservation and Recycling
- Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Civil (Water Resource Engineering) Course / Subject Code: ME01033011 Course / Subject Name: Hydrology And Watershed Management
Unit 4 Stochastic Hydrology
- Random Variables (RVs)
- Distribution of random variation
- Probability Distributions
- Properties of Random Variables
- Parameter Estimation
- Commonly used Distributions in Hydrology
- Hydrologic Data Generation
- Introduction to Time Series - stationarity
- Correlation and regression analysis
- stochastic process
- Time series Analysis
- Frequency analysis
- Extreme value analysis
Unit 5 Watershed Modeling
- Standard modeling approaches and classifications
- system concept for watershed modeling
- modeling of rainfall‐runoff process
- subsurface flows and groundwater flow
- Model calibration
- validation and sensitivity analysis
- Applications of Geographical Information System and Remote Sensing in Watershed Management
- Role of Decision Support System in Watershed Management