Instructors
Fall 2018:
Professor Uli Mayer
Head TA: Hannah Gatz-Miller
Recommended supplemental texts:
Freeze and Cherry, Groundwater, 1979. Available free of charge on-line at: http://hydrogeologistswithoutborders.org/wordpress/1979-toc/
Additional supplemental text:
Schwartz and Zhang, Fundamentals of Groundwater, 2002
Fetter, C. W., Applied Hydrogeology, 3rd Ed., 1990, or 4th Ed. 2001, MacMillan Pub.
Domenico, P.A., and F.W. Schwartz, Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1998.
Lecture Topics
Topics |
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Darcy's Law, hydraulic conductivity and fluid potential
- Chapter 3: Piezometers, head measurements, gradients and 3-point problems, relationship between permeability and hydraulic conductivity, validity of Darcy's law
- Chapter 4: Representative elementary volume (REV) concept. Homogeneity and heterogeneity. Isotropy and anisotropy. Flow parallel and across layers. Upscaling
- Chapter 5: Aquifers and Aquitards - Conceptual models of groundwater flow
- Chapter 6: Steady state groundwater flow equation and boundary value problems
- Chapter 7: Flow nets - construction and interpretation, average linear groundwater velocity
- Chapter 8: Storage and transient groundwater flow; effective stress, compression, consolidation and subsidence; 2D horizontal plane aquifer models
- Chapter 9: Flow to wells, pumping tests and slug tests, parameter estimation
- Chapter 10: Flow in unconfined aquifers - applications to dewatering
- Chapter 11: Principle of superposition for calculating drawdows, capture zones, travel times and wellhead protection
- Chapter 12: Regional groundwater flow and groundwater sustainability - Final exam preparation and logistics
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Labs
Lab |
Percent of lab mark (15% total) |
Beach lab |
1 |
Permeameter |
1 |
Hydrogeological data / Intro to Betul |
2 |
Flownets |
2 |
Boundary Value Problems |
2 |
Parameter Estimation |
2 |
Dewatering lab |
5 |