Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering
National Taiwan University

541 M11OO GROUNDWATER POLLUTION

COURSE OUTLINE (Part I)

1. INTRODUCTION
Objectives, Role of groundwater in the management of water resources, Management of groundwater resources, Aquifers and their classification, Models and modeling procedure, Hydrauljc approach to flow in aquifer, Continuum approach to porous media.
2. GROUNDWATER MOTION
Energy of a fluid in porous media, Darcy`s law, Extensions of Darcy`s law, Aquifer Transmissivity, Validity and limitations of Darcy`s law, Darcy`s law for anisotropic media, Hydraulic conductivity, Homogeneity and heterogeneity, Isotropy and anisotropy, Dupuit assumptions for a phreatic aquifer, Dupuit-Forchheimer dicharge formula, Flowthrough a stratified phreatic aquifer.
3. MODELING THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW
Specific storativity, Basic mass balance equation, Initial and boundary conditions, Complete statement of mathematical flow model
4. MODELING TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW IN AQUIFERS
Aquifer storativity, Aquifer balance equations, Initial and boundary conditions, Complete statement of aquifer flow model.
5. MODELING FLOW IN THE UNSATURATED ZONE
Capillary presuure and retention curves, Motion equations, Effective permeability, Balance equations, Initial and boundary conditions, Complete statement of unsaturated flow model.
6. MODELING GROUNDWATER POLLUTION
Hydrodynamic dispersion, Advective, dispersive and diffusive fluxes, Balance equation for a pollutant, Initial and boundary conditions.
7. SELECTED TOPICS
Use of computer codes (for PC`s) to solve flow and contaminant transport models, Groundwater quality monitoring and health risk assessment, Pollution control strategies, groundwater remedial approaches.

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3. Wang, H. F. and M. P. Anderson, Introduction to Groundwater Modeling. Freeman (1982)