| Italian title | Idrologia sotterranea |
| Language | English |
| ECTS | 6 |
| Course type | Second Cycle Degree (Master’s Level) – Advanced Course |
| Period | Autumn Semester |
| Scope and form | Lectures |
| Course duration | 13 weeks |
| Type of assessment | Final written and oral examinations. The students are required to develop a course project consisting of the setting up and calibration of a simulatio. |
| Exam duration | Written: 2 hours, Oral: 30 minutes |
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| Prerequisites | Elementary Calculus (derivative and integrals), elementary numerical analysis, Numerical methods for PDEs |
| General course objectives | Estimation of groundwater recharge. Confined and unconfined aquifer systems, multilayer aquifers, etc. Mathematical models of flow in a groundwater system. Numerical solution. Determination of aquifer properties field data. Pumping tests. Aquifer compaction and land subsidence. |
| Learning objectives | A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:- Determine the characteristics of a groundwater system;
- Set up and calibrate simulation models for a groundwater system;
- Simulate flow in an aquifer;
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| Content | Water cycle. Quantities of use in porous media hydrology. Aquifer systems. Darcy’s law. Flow equations in confined aquifers. Unconfined aquifers and Dupuit approximation. Analytical solutions to flow equations. Pumping tests. Geostatistics applied to hydrogeology. Partially saturated flow. Richards equation. |
| Course Resources | Course material: Ghislain de Marsily: Quantitative Hydrogeology. Academic Press Lecture Notes |
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| Key words | Flow in porous media. Groundwater. Aquifer systems. Simulation models. Pumping tests. Geostatistics. Land subsidence. |
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