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
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.
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)
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
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.