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| GEOL0083-3 | Groundwater Modelling
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Alain Dassargues |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Short reminder about general equation of the groundwater flow in porous media in steady state and transient conditions;
Short reminder about solute transport equation involving advection, diffusion, dispersion, adsorption/desorption, degradation, immobile water effect, physicochemical reactions.
Groundwater flow and solute transport in variably saturated geological media
Methodology in groundwater modelling
Representation, idealization, and discretization of the porous and fissured media;
Use of the various numerical techniques: advantages/disadvantages for the user, adequacy of the technique, resolution of the transport equations by various digital Eulerian and Eulerian-Lagrangian techniques, problems of numerical instabilities and dispersion
Development of a conceptual model and discussion of the boundary conditions;
Calibration procedures, invers modelling and sensitivity analysis for local and regional models
Influence of interactions between parameters, non linearities and coupling
Study cases
Applications to actual situations by using various methods of resolution |
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| Course objective : | To allow the students to get a thorough knowledge concerning groundwater modelling using different numerical techniques available for problems involving groundwater flows and solute transport.
This knowledge, indeed, is extremely appreciated by decision makers, the administrations, Ministries, water-companies, semi-public and engineering departments related to environment. Predictive calculations related to groundwater are of great importance in, quantitative and qualitative management of the local and regional groundwater resources, in engineering geology problems, for waste disposal impact studies, contaminated sites cleaning, etc. |
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| Prerequisites : | It is adviced to have a good background in Hydrogeology. |
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| Workshops : | Use of a software running on PC's for resolution of an actual study-case with groundwater flow and solute transport computations in a classical situation of protection zones delineation or impact study of a waste disposal. A short report is expected from each group of 2 students. |
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| Organization : | BE CAREFUL: this course will probably not be organised this academic year 2010-2011 due to changes in the program of the regular students in Geological Engineering.
If you are interested to follow this course, please contact Prof. Dassargues |
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| Written notes : | Notes and/or copy of the transparents are provided at the beginning of the lessons.
Reference titles:
'Introduction to groundwater modeling : finite difference and finite element methods', H.F. Wang & M.P. Anderson, Academic Press, 1995, 237 p.
'Modeling groundwater flow and pollution', J. Bear & A. Verruijt, Reidel, 414 p. |
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| Assessment : | Oral exam. The result can be influenced by the quality of the report on the practical exercice.
Preparation during 20 minutes (with books and notes) on a given question. Then oral exam (with blackboard), small questions around are possible. |
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| Contacts : | Professor: Alain Dassargues 04/3662376 Alain.Dassargues@ulg.ac.be
Assistents:
Pascal Goderniaux Pascal.Goderniaux@ulg.ac.be
Samuel Wildemeersch
swildemeersch@ulg.ac.be |
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