Transport Processes in the Vadose Zone

Lecturer:

Milena Císlerová (gar.)

Tutor:

Milena Císlerová (gar.), David Zumr

Supervisor:

Department of Irrigation, Drainage and Landscape

Synopsis:

Lectures: Description of the mechanisms

that govern the movement of fluids and contaminant transport in

aquifers and in the unsaturated zone. Seminars in the computer

lab: Introduction in the simulation models and their

application.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Solute transport in the subsurface, complexity of the problem.

2. Miscible flow, conservative transport.

3. Advection-dispersion equation, boundary conditions, methods of solution.

4. Velocity field determination.

5. Dispersion characteristics, scale dependence, methods of determination.

6. Parameter identification, inverse optimization programs.

7. Transport of reacting species, types of reactions.

8. Numerical simulation models.

9. Tracer experiments in the subsurface hydrology.

10. Multiphase (immiscible) flow, NAPLs.

11. Mathematical description of multiphase flow.

12. Geochemical and multiphase simulation models.

13. Case studies.

14. Summary and outlines.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. J.Bear, A. Verruijt, Modelling groundwater flow and pollution, Kluwer, 1994

2.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

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Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: