Groundwater hydraulics - MG451P05E

• Title: Groundwater hydraulics
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geophysics (31-450)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2017 to 2019
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 2/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: 3
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jiří Mls, CSc.
• Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Jiří Mls, CSc.

Annotation

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Mls, CSc. (20.04.2022)

HYDRAULICS OF GROUNDWATER - ANNOTATION

Groundwater zones; molecular, microscal and macroscale resolution levels; governing equations of Darcian hydromechanics; hydraulics of aquifers; hydromechanics of unsaturated zone; equations of component transport; introduction to poroelasticity.

Literature

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Mls, CSc. (20.04.2022)

References

Bear, J., 1972, Dynamics of Fluid in Porous Media, Elsevier, New York

Bear, J., 1979, Hydraulics of Groundwater, McGraw-Hill Inc., New York

Bear, J. and Cheng, A. H-D., 2010, Modeling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport, Springer; Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York

Bear, J. and Verruijt, A., 1987, Modeling Groundwater Flow and Pollution, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Boston- Lancaster-Tokyo

Luckner, L., Schestakow, W. M., 1991, Migration processes in the Soil and Groundwater Zone, Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig (also in English)

Mualem, Y., 1976, A new model for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media, Water Resour. Res., 12, 513-522

van Genuchten, M. T., 1980, A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils, Soil. Sci. Am. J., 44, 892-898

Verruijt, A., 1982, Theory of Groundwater Flow, The Macmillan Press, London and Basingstoke

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Mls, CSc. (20.04.2022)

The credit is awarded, apart from the exam, for written elaboration of the prescribed exercises.
Written exam containing tasks and questions covering the subject in the amount lectured during the term.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. RNDr. Jiří Mls, CSc. (20.04.2022)

HYDRAULICS OF GROUNDWATER - SYLLABUS

Groundwater; porous media, aquifers, basic notions.

Darcy�s law; 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 its diffusion and capacity forms.

Transport phenomena; phases and components, molecular diffusion, advection, dispersion, dispersivity, coefficient of dispersion, advection-dispersion equation, sources, degradation, decay, sorption, general transport equation.

Poroelasticity; solid-phase tension, Cauchy�s theorem, the small-strain tensor, generalized Hook�s law, Biot�s assumptions and Biot�s theory of poroelasticity.