Title: Civil and Environmental Engineering 1
Author: fredjo
Company: MIT

Civil and Environmental Engineering 1.72: Groundwater Hydrology

Instructor:		Charles F. Harvey
			48-321 (Parsons Lab), Ph: 258-0392
			charvey@mit.edu

Teaching Assistant:	Freddi-Jo Eisenberg
			48-320 (Parsons Lab), Ph: 253-4124
			fredjo@mit.edu
			office hours: Mon 11-12, Wed 3-5

When and Where

Class:  Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-4:00 (48-316)
Lab: Tuesday 1:30-2:00 (48-316)

Text

Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, Domenico and Schwartz, 1998 (at Coop)

Reserve Books (Barker Circulation Desk)

Groundwater, Freeze and Cherry, 1979
Quantitative Hydrogeology, DeMarsily, 1986
Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media, Bear, 1972
Hydraulics of Groundwater, Bear, 1979
Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock, Sahimi, 1995
Contaminant Hydrology, Todd, 1980
Fundamentals of Soil Physics, Hillel, 1980
Introduction to Groundwater Modeling, Wang and Anderson, 1982
Visual MODFLOW Manuals

Outline

1.  Course overview and the hydrologic cycle

2.  Water budgets and watershed hydrology

3.  Groundwater flow
•	Darcy’s Law and hydraulic potential
•	The steady-state groundwater flow equation
•	Stream lines and flownets
•	Regional flow and geologic controls on flow
•	Transient flow, aquifer storage, and compressibility
•	Unconfined flow
•	Groundwater interaction with streams and lakes
•	Numerical methods

4.  Well hydraulics
•	Theim and Theis equations
•	Laplace transform method

5.  Contaminant transport
•	Advection and dispersion
•	Mobile-immobile domain mass transfer
•	Reactive transport
•	Aquifer remediation

6.  Coupled flow and transport
•	Density driven flow, groundwater interaction with oceans
•	Heat transport and groundwater flow

7.  Vadose zone hydrology
•	Unsaturated flow, retention curves, and Richard’s equation
•	Infiltration and evapotranspiration

8.  Spatial variability and geostatistics

Course Requirements

Assignments:  Assignments will be due wither one or two weeks after they are handed out, depending on their length.  Grades will be reduced 10% by each day late.

Exams: One in-class midterm (Oct. 29, 1998) and a 3-hour final exam (Dec. 15, 1998).

Grading

Assignments		40%

Midterm		25%

Final			35%