Course detail

Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration

FAST-DSB025Acad. year: 2023/2024

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

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Miroslav Dumbrovský, CSc.

Department

Institute of Landscape Water Management (VHK)

Entry knowledge

Hydrology, Hydropedology,Landscape water management

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

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.
The student will obtain information about complex system of Landscape engineering and hydrotechnical melioration in the watershed, focused on digital solution.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Holý M, a kol - Eroze a životní prostředí, ČVUT Praha 1998   (CS)
HOLÝ, M. a kol.: Odvodňovací stavby. SNTL Praha 1984  (CS)

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

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.