Question bank of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering Oral/Viva Examination

1. Question Bank for Hydrology and Water Resource Engineering
Oral Examination
1. Types of Precipitations and examples of each precipitation.
2. Forms of Precipitations – Size and Intensity of Precipitation.
3. Define hydrology and give its applications.
4. Explain in detail engineering hydrology cycle with its components.
5. Measurement of Rainfall – Methods, Devices/Rain gauges.
6. Suitability of each rain gauge.
7. Presentation of Rainfall data.
8. Difference between Hyetograph and Hydrograph.
9. Methods of mean precipitation calculation and Suitability of it.
10. Various Rainfall Losses and definition.
11. Explain Horton’s Method and infiltration indices.
12. Factors affecting Evaporation, Evapotranspiration and transpiration.
13. Measurement, Devices, methods and estimation of Evaporation, Evapotranspiration and
transpiration.
14. Explain working of current meter, sounding weights, Echo-sounder for depthmeasurement.
15. How you can control the evaporation loss? (methods to control evaporation loss)
16. What is PET and AET?
17. What is Runoff? How you can calculate the runoff?
18. Explain velocity measurement methods.
19. Types and Factors affecting the Hydrograph.
20. Unit Hydrograph – Definition, Assumptions and Limitations
21. Explain Gumbel’s method for prediction of flood.
22. Define irrigation, its functions and necessity.
23. Methods to estimate flood discharge – Rational Method Formula and Empirical Formulas.
24. Definition and examples of Aquifer, Aquitard, Aquiclude and Aquifuge.
25. Relation between specific yield and Specific Retention.
26. What are the different methods of surface and sub surface irrigation?
27. What is River Gauging? How you can Select of Gauge Site?
28. How you can measure the discharge and velocity of flow of river?
29. Explain need of micro irrigation in recent time.

2. 30. What is isochrone and isohyet?
31. What is Field Capacity, Permanent wilting point, Ultimate wilting point, Crop Period, Base
Period, Saturation Capacity?
32. What is Delta and Duty? Tell us Relation between Delta and Duty.
33. Explain different types of irrigation efficiencies.
34. What are the different methods for assessment of canal revenue?
35. What is Kor Watering, Paleo Irrigation, Gross command Area, Culturable Command Area?
36. Crop Seasons – Types and Examples.
37. Various methods of Irrigation and applications/suitability of each.
38. What are the causes and effects of Water logging? How you can control it?
39. How to calculate irrigation canal capacity and reservoir capacity?
40. Explain occurrences and distribution of ground water.
41. How to calculate specific capacity of well?
42. Explain tube well, open well, Cavity type tube well and slotted type of well.
43. What is a reservoir and its types?
44. Explain Warabandi system of water distribution.
45. What is flood mitigation, multipurpose, distribution reservoir?
46. What parameters are considered for suitable site selection of a reservoir?
47. Enlist types of investigations and surveys required for planning of reservoir.
48. Explain Volume-Elevation and Area-Elevation Curves for reservoir planning.
49. Define flood routing.
50. What are the measures to control sediments entry in reservoir?
51. Explain Automatic Weather Station (AWS).
52. Which books you have referred for HWRE?
53. Working of pan evaporimeter/infiltrometer/rain gauge station.
54. Units of measurement for rainfall, rainfall intensity, infiltration, evaporation.
55. What you understand from HWRE subject? And Why it is important?
Prepared by,
Prof. Sahil S. Salvi
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering and Research, Ravet, Pune