Syllabus
HYDRAULICS OF GROUNDWATER - SYLLABUS
Basics of hydromechanics.
Groundwater; porous media, aquifers, basic notions. Flow of groundwater; Darcy's law, volumetric flux density, hydraulic conductivity, non-Darcian flow, anisotropy, hydraulic head, variable density. Governing equations; continuity equation, steady-state flow, evolution problems, specific storativity, general equation of saturated flow, 2D problems, initial and boundary conditions, free and movable boundaries. Hydraulics of aquifers; the Dupuit-Forchheimer approach, discharge per unit width, transmissivity, storativity, the Girinskii potential. Unsaturated zone; negative pressure head, water content, retention curve, van Genuchten's equation, the Darcy-Buckingham law, Mualem's equation, Richards' equation and corresponding boundary conditions. Transport phenomena; phases and components, molecular diffusion, advection, dispersion, dispersivity, coefficient of dispersion, advection-dispersion equation, sources, degradation, decay, sorption, general transport equation.
Annotation
HYDRAULICS OF GROUNDWATER - ANNOTATION
Basics of hydromechanics; groundwater; molecular, microscale and macroscale resolution levels; Darcy's law and equations of Darcian mechanics; hydraulics of aquifers; unsaturated zone and its characteristics; Richards' equation; phases and components; transport of polutants; sorption and decay.