Course Details
Hydropedology
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
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.