Course Details

Groundwater Hydraulics

Academic Year 2024/25

CR001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

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.-11. Seepage deformation. 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.