Course detail

Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration

FAST-DSB025Acad. year: 2021/2022

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

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

8

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

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.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

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.

Work placements

Not applicable.

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.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DPA-V Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPC-V Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DKA-V Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DKC-V Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

Syllabus

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.