CE-431: Engineering Hydrology

Course Information:

Credit Hours : 02 (Contact Hours: 02)

Level : 7th Semester (4th Year)
Medium of Instruction : English
Pre-requisite : None
Equivalent Course : Not Applicable
CEP/OEL : None
Course Aims:
 To enable students to learn broad areas of hydrological engineering and principles of water
management particularly in irrigated agriculture.

CLOs and Mapping with PLOs

Taxonomy PLO
CLO Description PLO
Level Weightage
Apply the principles of engineering hydrology for
CLO1 carrying out quantitative calculations related to PLO 1 C3 100
surface and ground water flow
Solve rainfall-runoff for assessment of water
CLO2 availability and reservoir/channel routing in addition PLO 4 C3 100
to various types of stream gauging
Analyze discharge hydrograph for different
CLO3 PLO 2 C4 100
catchments
Estimate Runoff Hydrograph for a Given catchment
CLO4 PLO 12 C4 100
area using A hydrological Model

Course Contents
Introduction: Introduction to Hydrology, Hydrologic cycle and the water balance equation,
Practical uses of hydrology, Importance of hydrology, Water Resources: Planning and
development of water resources projects, Domestic, Industrial, Agricultural and other water
usages, Water resources in Pakistan, Water Management: Water management practices at
basin level, canal level and farm level, Meteorology: The atmosphere and its composition, dew
point and its measurement devices, Saturation deficit, The general circulation of wind system,
the monsoons and western disturbances, Measurement of air temperature, relative humidity,
radiation, sunshine, atmospheric pressure and wind velocity & direction, Precipitation: Forms
and types of precipitation, Factors necessary for the formation of precipitation, Measurement of
precipitation, Interpretation of precipitation data, Computation of average rainfall over a basin,
Evaporation and Transpiration: Factors affecting evaporation, Measurement of evaporation,
Evapo-transpiration, Stream Flow: Water Stage and its measurement, Stage Gauges and its
types, Selection of control and metering section, Methods of measurement of stream flow,
Current meter, Interpretation of stream flow data, Runoff & Hydrographs: Factors affecting
runoff, Estimating the volume of storm runoff, Characteristics of Hydrograph, Components of a
hydrograph, Hydrograph separation, Estimating the volume of direct runoff, Introduction to unit
hydrograph concept, S-curve, Application of probability in determining maxima/minima of
discharge, Floods and their estimates: Introduction to floods and its causes, Methods to
estimate floods, Return period and its estimation, Flood Frequency analysis, Urban hydrology:
Introduction to urban hydrology and its impacts on water cycle, Stream Flow Routing: Reservoir
routing, Channel routing, Flood Control, Introduction to Hydrological Modeling, Groundwater:
Introduction to groundwater, Sources and discharge of ground water, Water table and artesian
aquifer, Groundwater hydraulics, Pumping test, Tube well technology, Computer Application:
Introduction to Hydrological Modeling Software
Recommended Books and References
1. Introduction to Hydrology (5th edition) by Warren Viessman, Jr. and Gary L. Lewis Pearson
Education, Inc. (Prentice-Hall), 2002 ISBN-13: 978-0-673-99337-3
2. Irrigation Engineering & Hydraulic Structures (19th Edition) by Santosh Kumar Garg,
Khanna Publishers (Reprinted 2006) ISBN-10: 81-7409-047-9

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