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CENG 139
Groundwater Hydrology
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Course Schedule:

Date(s) Topic (subject to change) Assignment Text Sections
3/30

Introduction, hydrologic cycle, stream/aquifer interactions, data, terminology

 Hwk 1

1.3, 1.5-1.7, 1.9, 2.9, optional: 1.8, 12.6-12.7
4/1

Porous media characteristcs, geology, soil borings, grain sizes, porosity

  

3.1-3.2
4/3

Aquifers, specific yield and retention

  

3.3, 3.6-3.7
4/6

Hydraulic conductivity in Darcy's law, permeability, hydraulic head

  

3.4-3.5, 4.3
4/8

Hydraulic gradients, storativity, transmissivity

 Hwk 2 3.9, 3.12, 4.5
4/10 No Class - Good Friday    
4/13 Compressibility, effective stress, and land subsidence   3.10
4/15 Equations of GW flow, solution of flow equations Hwk 3 4.7
4/17

Lab Exercise 'Darcy's Law'

  

3.9
4/20

Example problems of steady flow in confined and unconfined aquifers

 Hwk 4

4.13-4.14
4/22 No Class    
4/24 No Class - president inauguration    
4/27 No Class    
4/29

Flow nets

 

4.10-4.11
5/1

Homogeneity and Isotropy, equivalent K, Refraction of flow lines

  

3.11, 4.12
5/4

Finite difference methods

 Hwk 5

13.4
5/6

Radial flow to a pumping well - steady-state

  

5.1-5.4
5/8

Radial flow to a pumping well - transient

  

5.4
5/11

Aquifer parameters from pump tests I

  

5.5
5/13 Review for midterm    
5/15

Aquifer parameters from pump tests II

  

5.5
5/18 Midterm Exam    
5/20

Image well theory, superposition

 Hwk 6

5.8-5.9
5/22 Salt water intrusion into wells, capture zone analysis   8.8, 10.10
5/25 Memorial Day -- No Class    
5/27 Introduction to MODFLOW, Application of MODFLOW using GMS   13.7
5/29 Application of MODFLOW using GMS - continued    
6/1 Application of MODFLOW using GMS - continued    
6/3 Continue with MODFLOW    
6/5

Wrap up MODFLOW project, complete engineering analysis

  

 
Mon., 6/8 Final Exam, 9:10 - 12:10 pm    

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