DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, IIT Bombay

COURSE OUTLINE - CE654- Advanced Hydrological Analysis and Design

Academic year: 2016-2017 Semester offered: Second
Credits : 6.0 Lecture/ Tutorial: 3

Course Instructor Prof. V. Jothiprakash, Office: Room 124, Civil Engg. Dept., Phone:022-
2576 7315 Mobile : 09869312842
E-mail: vprakash@iitb.ac.in
Course Content
Review of Various Processes in the Hydrological Cycle: Precipitation, Abstracts, Evaporation, Infiltration,
Evapotranspiration, Streamflow and its measurements, floods, flood routing.
Problems and Models in Hydrology: Systems Approach, Parameter Estimation methods, Watershed Runoff Modeling,
Response Time Characteristics, Linear Models: Rational Method, Time Area Methods, Unit Hydrograph Method, Derivation
of UH and IUH, Clark Model, Nash Model, Time-Variant Linear Reservoir, Time-Area Method.
Hydrologic Time Series Models: Time series introduction, time series analysis, correlation, regression, testing of hypothesis,
normality and stationarity tests, ACF, PACF, trend, periodicity, stochastic models like AR, ARMA and ARIMA. Rainfall-
runoff models-case studies, case studies of other hydrological time series models.
Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design: Water Supply, Sewerage and Storm Water Networks: standards and case studies, finding
the capacity of reservoir, rain water harvesting systems, case studies on conventional water storage structures.
Soft Computing and Recent Techniques in Hydrologic Models: Introduction to soft computing techniques like, Artificial
neural networks, Genetic programming, Model tree, chaos theory, singular spectrum analysis.

Teaching and learning methods

Each student is expected to prepare the lectures in advance by reviewing previous lecture material and reading in
advance the recommended readings. Overall, each student's preparation of the assignments and lecture is expected
to require up to 8 hours per week.
Assessment criteria
Quiz I: 10%Quiz II : 10% Mid Sem: 20%
Assignments/Term Project : 10% Final Exam : 50%

Reference
1. Singh V.P. (2016) Hand Book of Applied Hydrology, (2nd Edition) McGraw Hill, New York, USA.
2. Subramanya K, Engineering Hydrology (3rd Edition), Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, New Dehli, 2008
(Good reference for Engineering Hydrology)
3. Salas, J.D., J.W. Delleur., V. Yevjevich and W.L. Lane, (1980) Applied Modelling of Hydrologic Time Series,
Water Resources Publications, Colorado., USA.
4. Kottegoda, N. T., (1980) Stochastic Water Resources Technology, The Macmillan Press Ltd. London
5. Linsley R.K., Franzini J.B., Freyberg D.L. and Techobanoglous G, Water Resources Engineering, McGraw Hill
Book Co., 1992. (Good reference for Water Resources part)
6. Wurbs R.A and James W.P, Water Resources Engineering, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi 2002 (Good
reference for Water Resources part)
7. Mays L.W and Tung Y-K, Hydrosystems Engineering and Management, McGraw Hill Inc, New York, 1992
(Good reference for Urban Stormwater Management Systems)
8. Garg S.K.., Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi 2001 (Good
reference for irrigation and hydraulic structures)

Additional Readings
Research papers from Journals like, Water Resources Research; Journal of Water Resources Planning and
Management, Journal of Hydrology, ASCE; Hydrological Processes, Stochastic analysis and applications,
Stochastic modelling and applications, and Stochastic process and their applications.

Term Paper
Each student is expected to complete a research topic in this subject and submit a report towards the end of the
semester. The student will present his work in a seminar during the week prior to the final exam.

Note: Minimum of 80% attendance in the lectures is essential as per Institute norms.

Hard Work is the Best substitute for the Hard Work