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.