Hydrogeology
(Course Code: 235KEY, Course outline)
Semester: | 7 | Teaching Credits: | 3 | ECTS Credits: | 5 | Type: |
Optional Compulsory |
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Prerequisite Courses: | – | Course type: | Special background | Instructor: | Petros Gaganis |
- Understand the basic characteristics of groundwater flow and mass transport in the subsurface.
- Be able to make simple calculations regarding flow and transport characteristics.
- Become familiar with simple groundwater models.
Topics per Week: |
1. Introduction, water cycle, water budget 2. Groundwater, Basic principles, reservoir types, Storativity 3. Principles of groundwater flow, Darcy’s law, Hydraulic conductivity 4. Hydrogeologic systems in local and regional scale 5. The flow equation, solution methods 6. Flow nets, Groundwater flow in the unsaturated zone 7. parameter estimation, Wells and effects 8. Introduction to groundwater pollution, sources, physical and chemical properties of groundwater pollutants 9. Mass transport, advection, diffusion |
Theory – Lectures (hours / week): |
3 |
Exercises – Laboratories (hours / week): |
1 |
Other Activities: | – |
Grading: |
Assignments (2) |
Notes: | Yes |
Basic Textbook: |
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Bibliography: |
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Language: | Greek |
Internet Links: |
http://bcs.wiley.com/he- bcs/Books?action=index&bcsId=1316&itemId=0471137 855 http://www.egr.msu.edu/igw/DL/ http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wsp2220 |