Course Overview
This course gives students an overview of the occurrence and movement of groundwater in a variety of geologic settings and explains the effect of human activity on that movement. Topics include types of aquifers, properties of porous media, groundwater flow and pump testing of aquifers. The course provides theoretical foundation for the study of groundwater contaminants in EENG 7741 - Contaminant Hydrogeology.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in EENG 7717
Credits
1.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Describe the fundamentals of groundwater in relation to the hydrologic processes.
- Explain hydraulic conductivity and transmissivity.
- Discuss aquifer storage and storativity.
- Identify the differences between aquifer homogeneity and heterogeneity.
- Compare confined aquifers to unconfined aquifers.
- Calculate pore pressure and effective stress in confined and unconfined aquifers.
- Discuss Darcy's Law in relation to the movement of fluids in a porous environment.
- Apply Darcy's Law to aquifer analysis.
- Solve basic groundwater problems using derivations of Darcy's Law.
- Analyze for storativity, hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity.
- Illustrate groundwater movement in a porous media.
- Explain the fundamentals of groundwater movement in unsaturated and saturated porous media.
- Describe the hysteresis effect in wetting versus nonwetting events in the unsaturated zone.
- Discuss the mechanics of water infiltration through the unsaturated zone to the water table.
- Identify the zones that comprise the unsaturated and saturated subsurface.
- Apply the principles of flow nets to groundwater flow.
- Evaluate groundwater flow patterns.
- Identify recharge and discharge zones.
- Construct flow nets for groundwater analysis.
- Solve for hydraulic conductivity using flow net analyses.
- Explain the application of radial flow to water wells in groundwater problems.
- Solve well pumping problems using the Theis, Jacob and Theim methods.
- Explain the use and principles of a single well response test.
- Describe the Hvorslev and Bouwer and Rice methods for response testing.
- Calculate hydraulic conductivity using the Hvorslev and Bouwer and Rice methods.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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