Sunday, February 15, 2015

Groundwater Books

Freeze, R. A. & Cherry, J. A. (1979). Groundwater. Prentice-Hall: New Jersey.     (978-0133653120) 
(still on the hunt, only found for purchase thus far)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/2220/report.pdf
(this was a free download published by the Dept of the Interior and US Geologic Survey) 

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/civil-and-environmental-engineering/1-72-groundwater-hydrology-fall-2005/index.htm
 (- this is the same information/materials as the MIT online course on Groundwater Hydrolog in Fall 2005 available from their Open CourseWare program)
 - could be promising, I plan to go through the materials and narrow down which aspects are most pertinent to this study

Here is an outline of the syllabus.

Outline

  1. Background
    • Hydrologic Cycle
    • Water Budgets
  2. Groundwater
    • Darcy's Law and Hydraulic Potential
    • The Steady-state Groundwater Flow Equation
    • Streamlines and Flow Nets
    • Regional Flow and Geologic Controls on Flow
    • Transient Flow, Aquifer Storage and Compressibility
    • Unconfined Flow
    • Groundwater Interaction with Streams and Lakes
    • Numerical Methods
    • Flow in Fractured Rock
  3. Well Hydraulics
    • Thiem and Theis Equations
    • Pump Tests and Slug Tests
  4. Contaminant Transport
    • Advection and Dispersion
    • Sorption and Diffusive Mass Transfer
    • Aquifer Remediation
  5. Vadose Zone Hydrology
    • Unsaturated Flow, Retention Curves and Richard's Equation
    • Infiltration and Evapotranspiration
  6. Couples Flow and Transport
    • Density Driven Flow, Freshwater/Saltwater Interaction
    • Heat Transport and Groundwater Flow
  7. The Role of Groundwater in Large-scale Water and Chemical Budgets

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