Subject Code: CE6L504	Name: Groundwater Hydrology	L-T-P: 3-1-0	Credit: 4
Prerequisite: None Groundwater in hydrologic cycle; Occurrence and movement; Aquifers and their characteristics/classification, Darcy’s law, Dupuit’s assumptions; Flow nets; Groundwater tracers; Well hydraulics: steady/unsteady, uniform/radial flow to a well in a confined/unconfined/leaky aquifer, Well flow near aquifer boundaries/for special conditions; Groundwater levels and environmental influences; Global climate change and groundwater; Quality of groundwater; Contaminant transport processes; Advection–dispersion equation; Treatment of contaminated groundwater; Groundwater flow modeling techniques; Governing equations; Finite difference modelling; Introduction to MODFLOW; Management of groundwater resources; Surface and sub-surface investigations; Artificial recharge; Saline water intrusion in aquifers: Ghyben-Herzberg relation; Remote sensing-based groundwater studies. Text/Reference Books: Todd, D. K. and Mays, L. W., Groundwater Hydrology, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005. Mays, L. W., Ground and Surface Water Hydrology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011. Mackay, R. & Riley, M., Groundwater Modeling, in An Introduction to Water Quality Modelling Second Edition, Ed: A. James, Wiley Publishers, 1992. Hiscock, K. M. and Bense, V. F., Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice, Second Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Subject Code: CE6L504

Name: Groundwater Hydrology

L-T-P: 3-1-0

Credit: 4

Prerequisite: None
Groundwater in hydrologic cycle; Occurrence and movement; Aquifers and their characteristics/classification, Darcy’s law, Dupuit’s assumptions; Flow nets; Groundwater tracers; Well hydraulics: steady/unsteady, uniform/radial flow to a well in a confined/unconfined/leaky aquifer, Well flow near aquifer boundaries/for special conditions; Groundwater levels and environmental influences; Global climate change and groundwater; Quality of groundwater; Contaminant transport processes; Advection–dispersion equation; Treatment of contaminated groundwater; Groundwater flow modeling techniques; Governing equations; Finite difference modelling; Introduction to MODFLOW; Management of groundwater resources; Surface and sub-surface investigations; Artificial recharge; Saline water intrusion in aquifers: Ghyben-Herzberg relation; Remote sensing-based groundwater studies.
Text/Reference Books:

Todd, D. K. and Mays, L. W., Groundwater Hydrology, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.
Mays, L. W., Ground and Surface Water Hydrology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.
Mackay, R. & Riley, M., Groundwater Modeling, in An Introduction to Water Quality Modelling Second Edition, Ed: A. James, Wiley Publishers, 1992.
Hiscock, K. M. and Bense, V. F., Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice, Second Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.