Course Title: Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Soil
Text: Vadose Zone Processes. Selker, J. S., C. K. Keller and J. T. McCord, 1999. Lewis
Publishers, Boca Raton, USA.
Course Description: This course covers theoretical and practical aspects of fluid flow and
chemical transport in variably saturated porous media. Topics include: general
description of flow and transport processes in porous media; gravimetric and volumetric
phase relations; principles of multiphase flow; flow of water in unsaturated soil as a
special case of multiphase flow; principles of aqueous phase solute transport in porous
media (advection, dispersion, sorption and degradation); principles of multi-component
transport in multiphase flow systems; sequential coupled chemical degradation (resulting
in daughter products), transport of gases in porous media; transport of chemicals in soil
air; and practical aspects of the management of solutes in variably saturated soils.
During the course several computer codes will be introduced for solving relevant flow
and transport problems. Emphasis will be placed on solving real world problems relevant
to the fields of agriculture, hydrogeology and environmental remediation.
Course Title: Agricultural Hydrology
Text: Soil and Water Management Systems, 1996, 4th edition. By Glenn O. Schwab,
Delmar D. Fangmeier, William J. Elliot. John Wiley and Sons Publisher.
Course Description: The hydrologic cycle, including weather elements and climate,
precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, and runoff as related to soil and
water management and control.
Course Title: Management of Drip Irrigation
Text: Drip and Microirrigation for Trees, Vines and Row Crops by Charles M. Burt and
Stuart W. Styles, published by the Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC), 2nd
Ed.
Course Description: Principles of drip irrigation, system and components, soil and water
relations, tensiometer principles and installation, chemigation, clogging and filtration,
system layouts, automation, trouble shooting, and field evaluation.
Course Title: Drainage Agricultural Land
Text: Soil and Water Conservation Engineering. Schwab, G. O., R. K. Frevert, T. W.
Edminster and K. K. Barnes, 1981. Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
Course Description: This course covers theoretical and practical aspects of drainage of
agricultural land. Topics include: land drainage overview, important soil/water
relationships, flow of water in porous media, subsurface drainage systems, controlled
drainage and sub-irrigation
surface drainage systems, land grading, open channel hydraulics. Students will be
introduced to the computer software DRAINMOD. DRAINMOD is a design tool that
allows the user to simulate the performance of alternative drainage and associated water
management practices. DRAINMOD can be used to investigate the effects these
practices have on water use, crop response, land treatment of wastewater, and pollutant
movement from agricultural fields. Students will be responsible for a term computer
project using DRAINMOD.