Course Details
Groundwater Hydraulics
Academic Year 2024/25
NRA012 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Winter Semester 1st year
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. 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.