Course Content

Module 1: Introduction

• The hydrological cycle and the influence of man,
• Basics of hydraulics: SI Units, properties of fluids, basic mechanics,
• Hydrostatics: Pressure, pressure measurement, pressure and forces on submerged surfaces,

Module 2: Fluid Motion and Precipitation

• Fluids in motion:
  • Types of flow.
  • Continuity, energy and momentum equations and their applications.
  • Behaviour of a real fluid
• Precipitation,
  • Measurement of precipitation amount and intensity,
  • Spatial analysis.
  • Interception and depression storage.
  • Evapotranspiration, Penman approach, actual evapotranspiration.
  • Runoff processes; overland flow, interflow, base flow,

Module 3: Velocity and Aquifer

• Runoff measurement; velocity area methods.
  • Structures; hydraulic principles of weirs and flumes.
  • Stage measurement. Rating curves and other methods,
• Groundwater occurrence: porosity, permeability, water holding formations, aquifers, aquicludes, aquifer types, aquifer boundaries, springs and streams in relation to groundwater,

Module 4: Aquifer Properties and Ground water

• Aquifer properties:
  • Transmissivity
  • Storage coefficient
  • Significance and typical magnitudes of these properties
• Groundwater movement: flow lines and equipotentials, natural flow, recharge, flow to wells, drawdown, cone of influence, radius of influence, interference,

Module 5: Principles of pumping Ground Water

• Pumping tests: aquifer and well tests, conduct, measurement of variables, precautions,
• Pumping test analysis:
  • Theis and Jacob approaches, well efficiency
  • Dupuit-Forchheimer and Theis assumptions, deviations from these, and alternative methods
• Groundwater recharge: processes, main methods of estimation.