Course Details

Groundwater Hydraulics

Academic Year 2025/26

NRA012 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Jaromír Říha, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Water Structures

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295716

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.