Introduction to Subsurface Hydrology

Description

This course introduces the basic principles of subsurface hydrology. It is concerned with the physical and chemical properties of soils and geological formations and their relation to the movement of water and solutes in these natural porous media. Elementary analytical and computational techniques will be covered.

Requirements

Hydrology (GEOG 416) or the consent of instructor. Calculus and General Chemistry are recommended but not required.

Instructor

Jin Ping (Jack) Gwo, Assistant Professor, Associate Graduate Faculty
Civil and Environmental Engineering
TRC 185
Phone: x3323, email: jgwo@umbc.edu

Text & Notes

Course Notes will be available on the instructor's web site. Required textbook is Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology by Domenico and Schwartz, second edition, Wiley & Sons, 1998, 506pp.

Evaluation

Homework -- 200
Term project report, Graduate Students ONLY -- 100
Midterm -- 200
Final -- 200

Lectures

Monday and Wednesday, 2:00pm - 3:15pm, TRC 112.

Office Hours

To be announced.

References

Table of Contents

1. Objectives and Overview, 1 lecture
2. Physical and Chemical Properties of Subsurface Media, 10 lectures

2.0 Hydrologic cycle and conceptual models
2.1 Porous Medium, Soil, Rock and Their Intrinsic Properties
2.2 Capillary, Water Retention, Permeability/Hydraulic Conductivity and the Buckingham-Darcy Equation, 2 lectures
2.3 Heterogeneity and Anisotropy lecture
2.4 Organic and inorganic matters in soils and rocks and the adsorption of solutes, 2 lecture

--Mid Term Exam (topics above), 1 lecture: Midterm 1 - solution
--Number of Assignments: 4 - Homework 1; Homework 2; Homework 3; Homework 4
--Homework solution sheets: Homework 1; Homework 2; Homework 3; Homework 4

3. Introduction to Principle of Mass Balance, 6 lectures

3.1 Mass conservation principle and flux calculation in homogeneous, isotropic porous media
3.2 Basic concepts of heterogeneity and the issue of scale
3.3 Hydraulic gradient, Darcy's law and anisotropy
3.4 Well hydraulics, 3 lecture

-- Homework 5; Homework 6; Homework 7;
-- Homework solution sheets: Homework 5; Homework 6; Homework 7

--Term project abstract due, Graduate students ONLY
--Number of Assignments: 3
--Mid Term Exam (topics above), 1 lecture: Midterm 2 - solution
 
4. Physical Principles of the Movement of Water in the Subsurface, 9 lectures

4.1 steady state groundwater flow equation, 2 lectures
4.2 boundary conditions of the steady state groundwater flow equations, 1 lecture
4.3 steady state boundary-value problem in the subsurface, heterogeneous, isotropic case, 3 lectures
4.4 transient flow problems, 3 lecture <>

--Number of Assignments: 2 - Homework 8
--Homework Solution Sheets: Homework 8
-- Midterm: Midterm 3 - solution
--Solution Workbooks: Theis
 

5. Introduction to Principles of the Fate and Transport of Solutes in the Subsurface, 4 lectures

5.1 advection and diffusion of solutes in porous media, 2 lectures
5.2 adsorption/desorption in reactive groundwater flow, 2 lectures

--Number of Assignments: 1
--Term project report due and presentation, Graduate students ONLY, 1 lecture
--Final Exam (all topics) : solution - solution workbook