Subsurface Hydrology

Course guarantor:

Tomáš Vogel

Lecturer:

Jaromír Dušek, Tomáš Vogel

Tutor:

Jaromír Dušek, Tomáš Vogel

Supervisor:

Department of Hydraulics and Hydrology

Synopsis:

Hydraulic characteristics of porous medium, governing equation for unsaturated flow, initial and boundary conditions. Infiltration, redistribution, evaporation, drainage, capillary rise. Subsurface stormflow. Flow in saturated formations. Transport of contaminants, hydrodynamic dispersion, governing equations, reactive transport.

Requirements:

N/A

Syllabus of lectures:

Hydraulic characteristics of porous media

Water flow governing equations

Solute transport

Heat transfer

Initial and boundary conditions

Infiltration, evaporation, redistribution, capillary rise

Water uptake by plant roots, transpiration of vegetation cover

Subsurface runoff

Preferential flow

Contaminant transport

Winter regime

Syllabus of tutorials:

N/A

Study Objective:

Quantitative understanding of basic processes associated with the flow of water and the transport of contaminants in natural porous formations.

Study materials:

Hillel D.: Environmental Soil Physics, Academic Press, 1998.

Pinder G., Celia M.: Subsurface Hydrology, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

Bear J.: Modeling Groundwater Flow and Pollution, Kluwer, 1987.

Note:

Further information:

http://hydraulika.fsv.cvut.cz/Hydrology/default.htm

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: