GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT
BSYSE 558
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Date |
Subject |
Handout |
Note |
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08/22M |
Introduction:
Goal, contents, and components |
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08/24W |
Prerequisite
knowledge |
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08/26F |
Hydrologic cycle |
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08/29M |
Ch 2 & 4,
Porous media: porosity, compressibility, tortuosity |
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08/31 |
Ch 4 & 19,
Flowing fluid: density, compressibility, viscosity |
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09/02 |
Ch 3, Concept of
potential: Hubbert’s approach |
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09/05 |
Labor Day, No
class |
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09/07 |
Ch 3, Bernoulli
Equation and Darcy’s law for saturated flow |
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09/09F |
Ch 3, Anisotropy
and heterogeneity of porous media |
Due: HW1 |
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09/12M |
Ch 3, Hydraulic
conductivity and permeability as tensors |
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09/14W |
Ch 3,
Classification of aquifers |
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09/16F |
Ch 3,
Darcy’s law for unsaturated flow |
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09/19M |
Ch 3, Mapping
flow in geological systems |
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09/21W |
Ch 4,
Conservation of fluid mass |
Belitz & Phillips Paper Lab5 Due: Lab 4 |
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09/23F |
Ch 4, Storage
properties of porous media |
Due: HW2 |
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09/26 |
Ch 4, Governing
equations for confined flow |
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09/28W |
Ch 4, Initial
and boundary conditions for confined flow Eq |
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09/30F |
Ch 4, Flow nets |
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10/03 |
Ch 4, Governing
equations for unconfined flow |
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10/05W |
Ch 4, Eq, IC, BC
for unsaturated flow |
PBA Overview Lab7; PrePBA Due: Lab 6 | |
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10/07F |
Ch 6, Prototype
geologic models in hydraulic testing |
Due: HW3 |
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10/10 |
Ch 6,
Conventional hydraulic test methods |
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10/12W |
Ch 6, Special
case testing |
Theis Eq Appli Lab8 |
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10/14F |
Mid-term Exam |
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10/17M |
Ch 7,
Introduction to ground-water flow simulation |
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10/19W |
Ch 7, Analytical
solutions |
Due: Lab 8 |
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10/21 |
Ch 7, Numerical
solutions and MODFLOW |
Due: HW4 |
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10/24M |
Ch 10, Mass
transport processes |
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10/26W |
Ch 10, Fickian
model and geostatistical approach |
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10/28F |
Ch 14, Mass
transport equations |
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10/31 |
Ch 14, Mass
transport with reaction |
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11/02W |
Ch 14, Mass
transport equation BC and IC |
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11/04F |
Ch 17, Sources
of ground-water contamination |
Due: HW5 |
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11/07M |
Ch 17, Solute
plume |
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11/09W |
Veteran’s Day, No class |
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Class Project |
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11/11F |
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11/14M |
Ch 18, Modeling
retardation due to sorption or decay |
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11/16W |
Ch 18, Ch 18,
Modeling transverse dispersion |
Class Project |
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11/18F |
Ch 18, Modeling
multidimensional transport |
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11/21-25 |
Thanksgiving Vacation week, No class |
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11/28 |
Programming the analytical solutions |
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11/30W |
Ch 19, Basic concepts of multi-phase fluid system |
Class Project |
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| 12/02F | Ch 19, LNAPs and DNAPLs | Lec45Stu | |
| 12/05-09 |
Class project presentations; Course review | Due: HW7, Class Project | |
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3:00-6:00 AM |