About Ground Water Hydrology
This course covers the following portions, ground water resources: Scope and occupancy; ground water in hydrologic cycle; different types of aquifers and their characteristics. Ground water movement: Darcy's law, mathematical treatment of frequently occurring flow problems, one-, two- and three- dimensional flow in phreatic, confined and semi-confined aquifers. Laboratory and field determination of hydraulic conductivity, determination of ground water flow parameters. Hydraulics of wells: steady and unsteady states of flow in, phreatic, confined and unconfined aquifers. Solution methods; graphical methods, use of image wells; Groundwater modeling: Mathematical, Physical and numerical models, Modeling of flow in porous media, Modeling of pollutant transfer in porous media. Application of mathematical models to the study of ground water flow problems; unsteady flow in leaky aquifers; partially penetrating wells; multiple well systems. Pumping test, design of piezometres, analysis and interpretation of data, Management of groundwater systems.