Subject Code: CE6L502 Name: Surface Hydrology L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit: 4

Prerequisite: None
Hydrologic cycle; Systems concept; Reynold’s transport theorem; Hydrologic processes; Atmospheric water; Precipitation; Evapotranspiration; Abstractions; Surface water; Streamflow hydrographs; Baseflow separation; Unit hydrograph; Hydrograph analyses; Flow routing; Streamflow; Subsurface water; Richards’s equation; Green-Ampt infiltration model; Frequency analysis; Hydrologic modeling; Hydrologic design; MATLAB/R/Python exercises for hydrologic analysis; HEC-HMS based hydrologic modeling.
Text/Reference Books:

  • Ven Te Chow (Editor), Handbook of Applied Hydrology: A Compendium of Water-resources Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964.
  • VenTe Chow, Maidment, D. and Mays, L.W., Applied Hydrology, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill Inc., New York, 2013.
  • Yevjevich, V., Probability and Statistics in Hydrology, Water Resources Publications, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1972.
  • Singh, V. P., Elementary Hydrology, Prentice Hall, 1992.
  • Maidment, D. R., Handbook of Hydrology, McGraw-Hill Inc., 1993.