by O. Lehn Franke, Thomas E. Reilly, Ralph J. Haefner and Dale L. Simmons
Preface
Background, purpose and scope, and technical qualifications for users of study guide
Annotated list of selected references in ground-water hydrology
Detailed outline with notes and exercises
Section (1) Fundamental concepts and definitions
Dimensions and conversion of units
Exercise (1-1) Dimensions and conversion of units
Water budgets
Exercise (1-2) Water budgets and the hydrologic equation
Characteristics of earth materials related to hydrogeology
Occurrence of subsurface water
Pressure and hydraulic head
Exercise (1-3) Hydrostatic pressure
Note (1-1) Piezometers and measurement of pressure and head
Exercise (1-4) Hydraulic head
Preparation and interpretation of water-table maps
Exercise (1-5) Head gradients and the direction of ground-water flow
Ground-water/surface-water relations
Exercise (1-6) Ground-water flow pattern near gaining streams
Section (2) Principles of ground-water flow and storage
Darcy's law
Exercise (2-1) Darcy's law
Note (2-1) Dimensionality of a ground-water flow field
Transmissivity
Exercise (2-2) Transmissivity and equivalent vertical hydraulic conductivity in a layered sequence
Aquifers, confining layers, unconfined and confined flow
Ground-water storage
Note (2-2) Ground-water storage, by Gordon D. Bennett
Exercise (2-3) Specific yield
Ground-water flow equation
Note (2-3) Ground-water flow equation - a simplified development, by Thomas E. Reilly
Section (3) Description and analysis of ground-water systems
System concept
Note (3-1) System concept as applied to ground-water systems
Information required to describe a ground-water system
Note (3-2) Information necessary to describe a ground-water system
Preliminary conceptualization of a ground-water system
Note (3-3) Preliminary conceptualization of a ground-water system
Exercise (3-1) Refining the conceptualization of a ground-water flow system from head maps and hydrogeologic sections by Herbert T. Buxton and Debra E. Bohn
Analysis of ground-water systems using flow nets
Note (3-4) Introduction to discretization
Exercise (3-2) Flow net beneath an impermeable wall
Note (3-5) Examples of flow nets
Regional ground-water flow and depiction of ground-water systems using hydrogeologic maps and sections
Note (3-6) Examples of hydrogeologic maps and sections
Geology and the occurrence of ground water
Description of a real ground-water system
Source of water to a pumping well
Exercise (3-3) Source of water to a pumping well
Role of numerical simulation in analyzing ground-water systems
Note (3-7) Role of numerical simulation in analyzing ground-water systems
Section (4) Ground-water flow to wells
Concept of ground-water flow to wells
Note (4-1) Concept of ground-water flow to wells
Analysis of flow to a well-- introduction to basic analytical solutions
Note (4-2) Analytical solutions to the differential equations governing ground-water flow
Note (4-3) Derivation of the Thiem equation for confined radial flow
Exercise (4-1) Derivation of the Dupuit-Thiem equation for unconfined radial flow
Note (4-4) Additional analytical equations for well hydraulic problems
Analysis of flow to a well --applying analytical solutions to specific problems
Exercise (4-2) Comparison of drawdown near a pumping well in confined and unconfined aquifers using the Thiem and Dupuit-Thiem equations
Exercise (4-3) Analysis of a hypothetical aquifer test using the Theis solution
Concept of superposition and its application to well-hydraulic problems
Note (4-5) Application of superposition to well-hydraulic problems
Exercise (4-4) Superposition of drawdowns caused by a pumping well on the pre-existing head distribution in an areal flow system
Aquifer tests
Note (4-6) Aquifer tests
Section (5) Ground-water contamination
Background and field procedures related to ground-water contamination
Physical mechanisms of solute transport in ground water
Note (5-1) Physical mechanisms of solute transport in ground water
Exercise (5-1) Ground-water travel times in the flow system beneath a partially penetrating impermeable wall
Exercise (5-2) Advective movement and travel times in a hypothetical stream-aquifer system
Note (5-2) Analytical solutions for analysis of solute transport in ground water
Exercise (5-3) Application of the one-dimensional advective-dispersive equation
Selected references
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