Course detail

Hydropedology

FAST-DSB023Acad. year: 2023/2024

Broadening of basic hydropedology knowledge.
Flow equations.
Hydraulic characteristics of soil.
Laboratory work - measurement and evaluation of soil hydraulic characteristics.
Variability of hydropedological quantities.
Soils geostatic.
Temperable flow.

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)

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of hydropedology from magister study programme, hydraulics, mathematics, physics,chemistry, probability theory and statistics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Broadening of subject knowledge in selected problems of hydropedology, independent solution of hydropedology tasks in laboratories and theoretical knowledge aimed at water management problems
Students will individually elaborate a seminar work from Engineering hydropedology in relation to the doctoral thesis.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

KODEŠOVÁ, R: Modelování v pedologii. Skriptum ČZU, Praha 2005  (CS)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav a KURÁŽ, Václav a CÍSLEROVÁ, Milena.: Hydropedologie, Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2000 (CS)
KUTÍLEK, Miroslav, NIELSEN, D.R.: Soil Hydrology, Catena Verlang, Germany, 1994 (EN)
ROWELL,D.L.: Soil Science, Methods and Applications, Longman Group UK, 2016, ISBN 13: 978-0-582-08784-2 (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DPC-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPA-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DPC-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme DKA-V Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Fundamentals of hydropedology. 2. Hydrostatic of soil – soil water potential. 3. Hydrodynamic of soil water. 4. Flow equations and their analysis. 5.–6. Hydraulic characteristics – approximating functions of retention curves, parametric evaluation of retention curves. 7. RETC program. 8. Infiltration. 9.–10. Variability of hydropedological quantities. 11. Hydropedological quantities as spatially random variables. 12.–13. Temperable flow – description of flow of dissolved substances and the analytical analysis of transport of dissolved substances.