Updated: March  6,  2000.
Copyright © 2000 by Jacob Bear, Haifa, Israel. 
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Computer-Mediated Distance Learning

Course on

 

MODELING

GROUNDWATER FLOW and

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT 



INSTRUCTOR: 


JACOB BEAR 









Professor Emeritus


Faculty of Civil Engineering


Technion-Israel Institute of Technology


Haifa 32000, Israel









 


Following is the program of the course. To read the actual content, click on the appropriate lecture. 


If you are a new student, I would like to suggest that you start with

TOPIC A, Lecture 1, and then continuously follow instructions. 




COURSE PROGRAM 



List of Main Symbols


PREFACE



TOPIC A: INTRODUCTION 


 LECTURE 1: Modeling Concepts 


 LECTURE 2: The Continuum Approach


TOPIC B: GROUNDWATER AND AQUIFERS 


 LECTURE 1: Moisture Distribution in the Subsurface 


 LECTURE 2: Classification of Aquifers 


 LECTURE 3: Regional Water Balance 


TOPIC C: MOTION EQUATIONS 


 LECTURE 1: Darcy's Law 


 LECTURE 2: Extensions of Darcy's Law 


 LECTURE 3: Aquifer Transmissivity and Dupuit Assumption 


TOPIC D: MODELING FLOW IN AQUIFERS 


 LECTURE 1: Fundamental Balance Equation.


 LECTURE 2: Mass Balance Equation.


 LECTURE 3: Soil and Fluid Compressibility.


 LECTURE 4: 3-d Flow Model.


 LECTURE 5: 2-d Horizontal Flow Model.


TOPIC E: MODELING FLOW IN THE UNSATURATED ZONE 


 LECTURE 1: Moisture Distribution in the Void-space.


 LECTURE 2: Two and three Phase Flow.


 LECTURE 3: Balance Equations and Complete Models.


TOPIC F: MODELING CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT 


 LECTURE 1:: Flux of a Dissolved Chemical Species 


 LECTURE 2: Mass Balance Equation For a Single Component 


 LECTURE 3: Complete Models


 LECTURE 4: Multiple Components


APPENDIX A: REFERENCES 


APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY 




You may e-mail me questions and comments.


Jacob Bear

E-mail address: cvrbear@tx.technion.ac.il.


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