INS 354 - Hydrology

Course Objectives

1. The introduction for students about the hydrology science which gains significance increasingly.
2. Establishing the foundation for the water resources course in the next term.
3. Enabling the application on water resources subject employing mathematics, physics, and statistics sciences.

Course Description

The definition of hydrology. Rainfall. Evaporation. Infiltration. Groundwater flow. Flow records and analysis. River basins. Snow melting. Hydrograph and analysis. Unit hydrograph theory and its applications. Synthetic unit hydrograph. The routing of the hydrograph along the river. Probability theory and the application of statistics in the hydrology.