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Hydro 409: Quantitative Hydrogeology
This is the course you’ve been waiting for! Did you know that:
| - Many groundwater equations are
non-linear?
- Heat transfer, electromagnetics, and hydrogeology all use the same equations? - Many graduates with a hydro background actually get jobs? |
Would you be happy to know that (Yortsos and Gavalas, 1982)?:
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I know I would be!
Topics to be covered will include:
| - Fundamental properties of porous media
- Multi-dimensional potential flow fields - Flow in unconfined aquifers, and other non-linear problems - Non-dimensional analysis - Transient flow, periodic boundary conditions, source/sink terms - And much, much more! |
This course is intended to give the mathematically inclined student a rigorous background in potential flow theory as it relates to groundwater flow systems.
| Instructor: Jerry Fairley, jfairley@uidaho.edu
Time/Place: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 – 11:50, Morrill Hall 214, 3 credits CRN: 22603 Text: A Mathematical Primer on Groundwater Flow, by J.F. Hermance Prerequisites: Math275, Math310, or permission of the instructor |
| “...only by tracing the development
of a mathematical relation from its underpinning physical laws through
a specific sequence of clearly defined...assumptions, can one appreciate
the extent and limitations of how a particular formula can be applied to
real-life situations.” -From the Preface to the course text
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| *Yortsos, Y.C., and G.R. Gavalas, 1982. Heat transfer ahead of moving condensation fronts in thermal oil recovery processes, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 25(3), pp. 305-316. |