Course Details

Hydropedology

Academic Year 2024/25

DSB023 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year

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.