GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT

BSYSE 558

Date

Subject

Handout

Note

08/22M

Introduction: Goal, contents, and components

syllabus; Lec1Stu; Lec1R; HW1

08/24W

Prerequisite knowledge

Lec2; Lec2a; Lec2b; Letey & Oster Paper

Letey & Oster Paper Lab1

08/26F

Hydrologic cycle

Lec3

 

08/29M

Ch 2 & 4, Porous media: porosity, compressibility, tortuosity

Lec4Stu

 

08/31W

Ch 4 & 19, Flowing fluid: density, compressibility, viscosity

Lec5Stu

Letey & Oster Paper Lab2

Due: Lab 1

09/02F

Ch 3, Concept of potential: Hubbert’s approach

Lec6

 

09/05M

Labor Day, No class

 

09/07W

Ch 3, Bernoulli Equation and Darcy’s law for saturated flow

Lec8; HW2

Cadillac Desert video Lab3

Due: Lab 2

09/09F

Ch 3, Anisotropy and heterogeneity of porous media

Lec9Stu

Due: HW1  

09/12M

Ch 3, Hydraulic conductivity and permeability as tensors

Lec10Stu

09/14W

Ch 3, Classification of aquifers

Lec11Stu; Belitz & Phillips Paper

 Belitz & Philllips paper Lab4

09/16F

Ch 3, Darcy’s law for unsaturated flow

Lec12Stu

 

09/19M

Ch 3, Mapping flow in geological systems

Lec13Stu; HW3

09/21W

Ch 4, Conservation of fluid mass

Lec14Stu

Belitz & Phillips Paper Lab5 Due: Lab 4

09/23F

Ch 4, Storage properties of porous media

Lec15Stu

Due: HW2  

09/26M

Ch 4, Governing equations for confined flow

Lec16Stu

 

09/28W

Ch 4, Initial and boundary conditions for confined flow Eq

Lec17Stu

Belitz & Phillips Paper Lab6; Leakance Due: Lab 5

09/30F

Ch 4, Flow nets

Lec18Stu

 

10/03M

Ch 4, Governing equations for unconfined flow

Lec19Stu; HW4; H4P1c; H4-P5

 

10/05W

Ch 4, Eq, IC, BC for unsaturated flow

Lec20aSt; Lec20bSt; Lec20.ppt

PBA Overview Lab7; PrePBA Due: Lab 6

10/07F

Ch 6, Prototype geologic models in hydraulic testing

Lec21Stu

Due: HW3  

10/10M

Ch 6, Conventional hydraulic test methods

Lec22Stu

10/12W

Ch 6, Special case testing

Lec23Stu

Theis Eq Appli Lab8; eatcom; lgconv; Lab8aJQW.ppt; theis

10/14F

Mid-term Exam

 

 

10/17M

Ch 7, Introduction to ground-water flow simulation

Lec25Stu; HW5Text; HW5P3Pic

10/19W

Ch 7, Analytical solutions

Lec26Stu

Theis Eq Appli Lab9

Due: Lab 8

10/21F

Ch 7, Numerical solutions and MODFLOW

Lec27Stu

Due: HW4  

10/24M

Ch 10, Mass transport processes

Lec28Stu; Critic

10/26W

Ch 10, Fickian model and geostatistical approach

Lec29Stu

Theis Eq Appli Lab10a; Lab10b Due: Lab 9  

10/28F

Ch 14, Mass transport equations

Lec30Stu

 

10/31M

Ch 14, Mass transport with reaction

Lec31Stu; HW6

 

11/02W

Ch 14, Mass transport equation BC and IC

Lec32Stu

Intro Class Proj PbaStu; SjvStu; Lab 11; Due: Lab 10a,b

11/04F

Ch 17, Sources of ground-water contamination

Lec33Stu

Due: HW5  

11/07M

Ch 17, Solute plume

Lec34Stu

11/09W

Veteran’s Day, No class

Class Project  

11/11F

Ch 18, Modeling advection and longitudinal dispersion

Lec35Stu

 

11/14M

Ch 18, Modeling retardation due to sorption or decay

Lec37Stu; HW7

11/16W

Ch 18, Ch 18, Modeling transverse dispersion

Lec38Stu

Class Project

11/18F

Ch 18, Modeling multidimensional transport

Lec39Stu

Due: HW6  

11/21-25

Thanksgiving Vacation week, No class

 

 

11/28M

Programming the analytical solutions

Lec43Stu

11/30W

Ch 19, Basic concepts of multi-phase fluid system

Lec44Stu; Quiz5

Class Project  

12/02F Ch 19, LNAPs and DNAPLs Lec45Stu  
12/05-09 Class project presentations; Course review   Due: HW7, Class Project

12/13Tu

Final Examination

 

3:00-6:00 AM