Course Details

Hydropedology

Academic Year 2024/25

BSA006 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Field work – soil sampling, measurement of infiltration. 2.–3. Evaluation of infiltration using the double-ring infiltration method and Minidisk infiltrometer. 4. Physical and mechanical properties of soil. 5. Hydrolimits. 6. Hydraulic characteristics of soil - soil moisture retention curve and hydraulic conductivity. 7. The theory of capillary models for predicting hydraulic conductivity of the course of soil moisture retention curves. 8. Computer program ROSETTA. 9. Computer program RETC. 10. Application of software ROSETTA and RETC. 11.–12. Creating a term paper. 13. Written test.