| Course ID: | WASR(GEOL) 8730. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Aquifer Mechanics |
Course
Description: | Mechanics of flow through subsurface media, including flow in confined, water table, and leaky aquifers, delayed yield, partially penetrating wells, boundaries, multiple wells, dual porosity media, and fractured rock; use of aquifer tests to estimate aquifer hydraulic properties. |
| Oasis Title: | AQUIFER MECHANICS |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in FORS 8730 |
| Prerequisite: | FORS 4110/6110-4110L/6110L or WASR(FORS) 4110/6110-4110L/6110L or GEOL 4220/6220 or GEOG 4030/6030 or CRSS 4600/6600-4600L/6600L or permission of school |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course focuses on understanding the mechanics of flow
through subsurface media. Upon successful completion of the
course, students will recognize and understand theories of
aquifer flow related to confined and leaky aquifers, unconfined
(water table) aquifers, wedge-shaped aquifers, effects of
boundaries and multiple wells, effects of partially penetrating
wells, dual porosity media, and fractured rock aquifers.
Students
will also be able to use aquifer pumping test data to identify
the relative importance of flow and transport processes and to
estimate hydraulic properties of aquifers. |
| Topical Outline: | 1 Basic concepts and definitions
2 Pumping tests
3 Confined aquifers
4 Leaky aquifers
5 Unconfined aquifers
6 Bounded aquifers
7 Wedge-shaped and sloping aquifers
8 Anisotrophic aquifers
9 Multi-layered aquifer systems
10 Partially penetrating wells
11 Large diameter wells
12 Variable-discharge tests
13 Recovery tests
14 Well-performance tests
15 Single-well tests
16 Slug tests
17 Uniformly-fractured aquifers
18 Single vertical fractures
19 Single vertical dikes |