102-0455-01L  Groundwater I

SemesterAutumn Semester 2017
LecturersM. Willmann, J. Jimenez-Martinez
Periodicityyearly recurring course
Language of instructionEnglish


AbstractThe course provides an introduction into quantitative analysis of groundwater flow and transport. It is focused on formulating flow and transport problems in groundwater, which are to be solved analytically.
Objectivea) Students understand the basic concepts of flow and contaminant transport processes and boundary conditions in groundwater.

b) Students are able to formulate simple practical flow and transport problems.

c) Students are able to understand and apply simple analytical solutions to simple flow and transport problems.
Content- Introduction, aquifers, groundwater use, sustainability, porosity, properties of porous media.
- Flow properties, Darcy's law, filter.
- Flow equations, stream function
- Analytical solutions flow, superposition principles, transient flow, free surface flow.
- Introduction to numerical methods: Finite difference method.
- Transport processes.
- Analytical solutions to transport problems
- Groundwater protection, groundwater remediation, groundwater management.
LiteratureJ. Bear, Hydraulics of Groundwater, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979

P.A. Domenico, F.W. Schwartz, Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, J. Wilson & Sons, New York, 1990

W. Kinzelbach, R. Rausch, Grundwassermodellierung, Gebrüder Bornträger, Stuttgart, 1995

Krusemann, de Ridder, Untersuchung und Anwendung von Pumpversuchen, Verl. R. Müller, Köln, 1970

G. de Marsily, Quantitative Hydrogeology, Academic Press, 1986