Analytical Groundwater Modeling: Theory and Applications using Python

Length: 300 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication Date: 2022-02-01
ISBN-10: 1138029394
ISBN-13: 9781138029392
Sales Rank: #7691010 (See Top 100 Books)

This book covers the theoretical aspects of mathematical groundwater models. It is aimed at advanced (under)graduate university students, as well as practicing hydrogeologists. The focus is on the fundamentals of the quantitative methods used to simulate, understand, and investigate groundwater systems. Uniquely, it provides hands-on exercises based on the popular open-source programming language Python. The book’s structure is such that the theoretical treatments of the modeling methods are exemplified by short pieces of computer code that demonstrate the implementation of the theory, making the book highly suitable for university courses on the fundamental aspects of groundwater modeling.

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
About this book
Acknowledgement
Authors
0 Basics of ground water flow
	0.1 Hydraulic head
	0.2 Darcy’s experiment
	0.3 Representative elementary volume
	0.4 Hydraulic conductivity and porosity
	0.5 Aquifers and aquitards
	0.6 Storage and transient flow
	0.7 Darcy’s law for groundwater modeling
	0.8 Dupuit and Forchheimer
	0.9 Ground water models
1 Steady one-dimensional flow with constant transmissivity
	1.1 Flow between two rivers
	1.2 Areal recharge between two rivers
	1.3 Areal recharge between an impermeable boundary and a river
	1.4 Flow through two zones of different transmissivities
2 Steady one-dimensional semi-confined flow
	2.1 Flow from a canal to a drained area
	2.2 Flow between a lake and a drained area
	2.3 Flow to a long river of finite width
	2.4 Flow to a river in a two-aquifer system
	2.5 Areal recharge between two rivers in a two-aquifer system
3 Steady one-dimensional unconfined flow with variable saturated thickness
	3.1 A real recharge between an impermeable boundary and a river
	3.2 Flow over a step in the aquifer base
	3.3 Combined confined/unconfined flow with a real recharge
4 Steady one-dimensional flow in coastal aquifers
	4.1 Confined interface flow
	4.2 Unconfined interface flow
	4.3 Combined confined/semi-confined interface flow
5 Transient one-dimensional flow
	5.1 Step changes in surface water level
	5.2 Periodic changes in surface water level
	5.3 Areal recharge between two rivers
	5.4 Solutions with Laplace transforms
	5.5 Unconfined flow with variable transmissivity
6 Steady two-dimensional flow to wells
	6.1 Radially symmetric flow on a circular island
	6.2 Wells near rivers and impermeable boundaries
	6.3 Wells near an inhomogeneity boundary
	6.4 Wells in a semi-confined aquifer
	6.5 Wells in a two-aquifer system
7 Steady two-dimensional flow to wells in uniform background flow
	7.1 A single well in uniform background flow
	7.2 Well capture zones
	7.3 A well in uniform background flow near a river
	7.4 A well in uniform background flow near a river with a leaky streambed
	7.5 A well in uniform background flow near the coast
8 Analytic element modeling of steady two-dimensional flow
	8.1 Uniform flow and wells
	8.2 Line-sinks for modeling rivers and streams
	8.3 Area-sinks for modeling areal recharge
9 Transient two-dimensional flow
	9.1 Wells in confined and unconfined aquifers
	9.2 Wells with aperiodic discharge
	9.3 Wells in a semi-confined aquifer
	9.4 Wells with well bore storage and skin effect
	9.5 Wells in a two-aquifer system
10 Steady two-dimensional flow in the vertical plane
	10.1 Vertical anisotropy
	10.2 Flow to a partially penetrating stream
	10.3 Flow over a step in the base
	10.4 Spatially varying head at the top of the aquifer
	10.5 Interface flow towards the coast
	10.6 Interface flow below as trip island
A Python primer
	A.1 Basics
	A.2 Loops and if statements
	A.3 The numpy package and arrays
	A.4 The matplotlib package for visualization
	A.5 Functions
	A.6 The scipy package for scientific computing
Numerical answers to selected problems
Bibliography
Index