Course Details
Groundwater Hydraulics
Academic Year 2024/25
NRA012 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Winter Semester 1st year
Introduction, basic assumptions applied in ground water hydraulics, Darcy’s equation.
1D flow, well hydraulics in steady state.
1D – well hydraulics. Pumping test evaluation.
1D – problems of one-dimensional seepage – FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in horizontal plane – interference of wells, FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in vertical plane – drawing and evaluation of flow net + FEM.
Solution of problems of seepage flow.
Seepage deformation.
Unsaturated seepage, infiltration.
Solute transport in ground water.
1D flow, well hydraulics in steady state.
1D – well hydraulics. Pumping test evaluation.
1D – problems of one-dimensional seepage – FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in horizontal plane – interference of wells, FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in vertical plane – drawing and evaluation of flow net + FEM.
Solution of problems of seepage flow.
Seepage deformation.
Unsaturated seepage, infiltration.
Solute transport in ground water.
Credits
5 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
winter
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
Nepožadují se
Aims
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the problems of groundwater hydraulics from the view of civil engineer. After finishing, the studen will be able to solve the wide range of problems of in the field using both analytical and numerical methods, he will be familiar with the software available and will know the co-operating professionals dealing with groundwater (hydrology, hydrogeology, pedology).
Knowledge in following areas:
basic assumptions applied in ground water hydraulics, Darcy’s equation.
1 D flow, well hydraulics in steady state
1 D – well hydraulics. Pumping test evaluation.
1D – problems of one-dimensional seepage - FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in horizontal plane - interference of wells, FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in vertical plane – drawing and evaluation of flow net + FEM.
Solution of problems of seepage flow.
Seepage deformation.
Solute transport in ground water.
Knowledge in following areas:
basic assumptions applied in ground water hydraulics, Darcy’s equation.
1 D flow, well hydraulics in steady state
1 D – well hydraulics. Pumping test evaluation.
1D – problems of one-dimensional seepage - FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in horizontal plane - interference of wells, FEM.
Two-dimensional seepage in vertical plane – drawing and evaluation of flow net + FEM.
Solution of problems of seepage flow.
Seepage deformation.
Solute transport in ground water.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction, basic assumptions applied in ground water hydraulics, Darcy’s equation.
- 2. Basic governing equations – law of mass conservation, Darcy’s formula.
- 3. 1 D flow, well hydraulics in steady state
- 4. 1 D – well hydraulics. Pumping test evaluation.
- 5. 1D – problems of one-dimensional seepage – FEM.
- 6.–7. Two-dimensional seepage in horizontal plane – interference of wells, FEM.
- 8.–9. Two-dimensional seepage in vertical plane – drawing and evaluation of flow net + FEM.
- 10. Deformation due to seepage.
- 11. Unsaturated zone hydraulics.
- 12. Contaminant transport in groundwater.
- 13. Introduction to the stochastic modelling.
- 12.–13. Solute transport in ground water.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Basics of groundwater flow.
- 2. Specific discharge, seepage velocity, pressure and piezometric head.
- 3. Darcy law, experiment.
- 4. 1D steady state flow – analytical solution.
- 5. 1D steady state flow – numerical solution.
- 6. 2D steady state flow – vertical plane – numerical solution.
- 7. 2D steady state flow – horizontal plane – numerical solution.
- 8. Potential flow theory, flow nets.
- 9. 1D unsteady state flow – numerical solution.
- 10. Flow to the well – steady state.
- 11. Pumping test.
- 12. system of wells, analytical steady state solution.