GROUND-WATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT

BSYSE 595

Date	Subject	Handout	Note
08/20	Introduction: Goal, contents, and components	syllabus; Lec1; HW1
08/22	Prerequisite knowledge	Lec2; Lec2a; Lec2b	Letey & Oster Paper Lab1
08/24	Hydrologic cycle	Lec3
08/27	Ch 2 & 4, Porous media: porosity, compressibility, tortuosity	Lec4
08/29	Ch 4 & 19, Flowing fluid: density, compressibility, viscosity	Lec5	Letey & Oster Paper Lab2 Due: Lab 1
08/31	Ch 3, Concept of potential: Hubbert’s approach	Lec6
09/03	Labor Day, No class
09/05	Ch 3, Bernoulli Equation and Darcy’s law for saturated flow	Lec8; HW2	Recitation Due: Lab 2
09/07	Ch 3, Anisotropy and heterogeneity of porous media	Lec9	Due: HW1
09/10	Ch 3, Hydraulic conductivity and permeability as tensors	Lec10
09/12	Ch 3, Classification of aquifers	Lec11	Belitz & Philllips paper Lab4
09/14	Ch 3, Darcy’s law for unsaturated flow	Lec12
09/17	Ch 3, Mapping flow in geological systems	Lec13; HW3
09/19	Ch 4, Conservation of fluid mass	Lec14	Belitz & Phillips Paper Lab5 Due: Lab 4
09/21	Ch 4, Storage properties of porous media	Lec15	Due: HW2
09/24	Ch 4, Governing equations for confined flow	Lec16
09/26	Ch 4, Initial and boundary conditions for confined flow Eq	Lec17	Belitz & Phillips Paper Lab6 Due: Lab 5
09/28	Ch 4, Flow nets	Lec18
10/01	Ch 4, Governing equations for unconfined flow	Lec19; HW4; H4-P5
10/03	Ch 4, Eq, IC, BC for unsaturated flow	Lec20a; Lec20b; Lec20.ppt	PBA Overview Lab7; PrePBA Due: Lab 6
10/05	Ch 6, Prototype geologic models in hydraulic testing	Lec21	Due: HW3
10/08	Ch 6, Conventional hydraulic test methods	Lec22
10/10	Ch 6, Special case testing	Lec23	Theis Eq Appli Lab8; eatcom; lgconv; Lab8aJQW.ppt; theis
10/12	Mid-term Exam
10/15	Ch 7, Introduction to ground-water flow simulation	Lec25; HW5Text; HW5P3Pic
10/17	Ch 7, Analytical solutions	Lec26	Theis Eq Appli Lab9 Due: Lab 8
10/19	Ch 7, Numerical solutions and MODFLOW	Lec27	Due: HW4
10/22	Ch 10, Mass transport processes	Lec28; Critic
10/24	Ch 10, Fickian model and geostatistical approach	Lec29;	Theis Eq Appli Lab10a; Lab10b Due: Lab 9
10/26	Ch 14, Mass transport equations	Lec30
10/29	Ch 14, Mass transport with reaction	Lec31; HW6
10/31	Ch 14, Mass transport equation BC and IC	Lec32	Intro Class Proj PbaStu; SjvStu Due: Lab 10
11/02	Ch 17, Sources of ground-water contamination	Lec33	Due: HW5
11/05	Ch 17, Solute plume	Lec34
11/07	Ch 18, Modeling advection and longitudinal dispersion	Lec35	Class Project
11/09	Veteran’s Day, No class
11/12	Ch 18, Modeling retardation due to sorption or decay	Lec37; HW7
11/14	Ch 18, Ch 18, Modeling transverse dispersion	Lec38	Class Project
11/16	Ch 18, Modeling multidimensional transport	Lec39	Due: HW6
11/19-23	Thanksgiving Vacation week, No class
11/26	Programming the analytical solutions	Lec43Stu
11/28	Ch 19, Basic concepts of multi-phase fluid system	Lec44	Class Project
11/30	Ch 19, LNAPLs and DNAPLs	Lec45