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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Civil Engineering |
| Mestrado Universitario en Enxeñaría da Auga (plan 2012) |
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| Groundwater engineering |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Groundwater engineering | Code | 632844207 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Optional | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction to the Hydrologic Cycle | Components Evapotranspiration and potencial Evapotranspiration Infiltration and recharge Baseflow |
| Geologic materials | Continental environments:erosion, transportation and deposition Kind of depositis: fluvial, eolian, lacustrine and galcial Uplift, diagenesis and erosion Tectonism and the formation of fractures |
| Ground water movement | Basic concepts Darcy´s experimental law and field extensions Propierties: porosity and hydraulic conductivity Filed Mapping Flow in fractured rocks |
| Main equations of flow | Conservation of fluid mass The storage properties of porous media Boundary conditions and flow nets |
| Flow in the unsaturated zone | Richards ´s equation Unsaturated flow in fractured rocks |
| Solute and particle transport | Advection Basic concepts of dispersion: diffusion and mechanical dispersion |
| Principles of aqueous geochemistry | Aqueous systems Equilibrium versus kinetic descriptions Equilibrium models of reaction Kinetcis reactions Ground water composition |
| Chemical reactions | Homogeneous reactions: Acid-base reactions, complextion reactions, oxidation-reductions reactions Heterogeneous reactions: dissolution/precipitation, reactions on surfaces |
| Saline water/ Sweet Water interface | Saline intrusion Methods |
| Hydraulic testing | Conventional hydraulic testing Single borehole test hydraulic testing in fractured or low permeability rocks Others methods of testing |
| Ground water as a resource | Land subsidence Coastal aquifers drainage on slopes road drainge dams |
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