Modeling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport

Modeling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport
Author: Jacob Bear
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 851
Release: 2010-01-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402066821

In many parts of the world, groundwater resources are under increasing threat from growing demands, wasteful use, and contamination. To face the challenge, good planning and management practices are needed. A key to the management of groundwater is the ability to model the movement of fluids and contaminants in the subsurface. The purpose of this book is to construct conceptual and mathematical models that can provide the information required for making decisions associated with the management of groundwater resources, and the remediation of contaminated aquifers. The basic approach of this book is to accurately describe the underlying physics of groundwater flow and solute transport in heterogeneous porous media, starting at the microscopic level, and to rigorously derive their mathematical representation at the macroscopic levels. The well-posed, macroscopic mathematical models are formulated for saturated, single phase flow, as well as for unsaturated and multiphase flow, and for the transport of single and multiple chemical species. Numerical models are presented and computer codes are reviewed, as tools for solving the models. The problem of seawater intrusion into coastal aquifers is examined and modeled. The issues of uncertainty in model input data and output are addressed. The book concludes with a chapter on the management of groundwater resources. Although one of the main objectives of this book is to construct mathematical models, the amount of mathematics required is kept minimal.

Theory of Ground Water Movement

Theory of Ground Water Movement
Author: Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1400876044

Gives valuable insight into the status of ground water hydrology in the U.S. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Gravitational Systems of Groundwater Flow

Gravitational Systems of Groundwater Flow
Author: József Tóth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521886384

A thorough overview of gravity-driven groundwater flow, illustrated with practical examples, from one of the founding fathers of the field.

The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering, Third Edition

The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering, Third Edition
Author: John H. Cushman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1726
Release: 2016-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1315354535

This new edition adds several new chapters and is thoroughly updated to include data on new topics such as hydraulic fracturing, CO2 sequestration, sustainable groundwater management, and more. Providing a complete treatment of the theory and practice of groundwater engineering, this new handbook also presents a current and detailed review of how to model the flow of water and the transport of contaminants both in the unsaturated and saturated zones, covers the protection of groundwater, and the remediation of contaminated groundwater.

Effective Parameters of Hydrogeological Models

Effective Parameters of Hydrogeological Models
Author: Vikenti Gorokhovski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642237223

Models of geological objects are tools for interpolation and extrapolation of available data in space and time continuously. Real structures of the objects are unknown, and their models and simulated results carry uncertainty which cannot be evaluated in a provable way. The real issue is obtaining effective predictions in a reasonably defined sense. This requires a knowledge of mechanisms that convert actual geological properties into effective model parameters. These mechanisms are introduced in the book. They reveal that effective parameters are not statistics but characteristics optimizing the system made up by geological surroundings, their models, predictive problem formulations, including mathematical models of the simulated processes, boundary conditions, monitoring networks, criteria of efficiency and even by time. Examples of evaluating and applying transformation for assigning effective parameters and solving inverse problems are presented.

Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling

Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling
Author: Neven Kresic
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 828
Release: 2006-10-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1420004999

Coupling the basics of hygrogeology with analytical and numerical modeling methods, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling, Second Edition provides detailed coverage of both theory and practice. Written by a leading hydrogeologist who has consulted for industry and environmental agencies and taught at major universities around the world, this unique