Research Catalog

Title

Modeling groundwater flow and pollution : with computer programs for sample cases / Jacob Bear and Arnold Verruijt.

Author

Bear, Jacob.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Norwell, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1987.

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Additional Authors

Verruijt, A.

Description

xiv, 414 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Theory and applications of transport in porous media

Uniform Title

Theory and applications of transport in porous media.

Subject

• Groundwater flow > Mathematical models
• Groundwater > Mathematical models
• Groundwater flow > Data processing
• Groundwater > Data processing

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 381-385.

Contents

• GROUNDWATER MOTION: Darcy's Law and its extensions -- Aquifer transmissivity -- Dupuit assumption -- MODELING THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW: Effective stress in porous media -- Mass storage -- Fundamental mass balance equation -- Initial and boundary conditions -- Complete statement of mathematical flow model -- Modeling soil displacement -- MODELING TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW IN AQUIFERS: Aquifer storativity -- Fundamental continuity equations -- Initial and boundary conditions -- Complete statement of aquifer flow model -- Regional model for land subsidence -- Streamlines and stream function -- MODELING FLOW IN THE UNSATURATED ZONE: Capillarity and retention curves -- Motion equations -- Balance equations -- Initial and boundary conditions -- Complete statement of unsaturated flow model -- MODELING GROUNDWATER POLLUTION: Hydrodynamic dispersion -- Advective, dispersive, and diffusive fluxes -- Balance equation for a pollutant -- Initial and boundary conditions -- Complete statement of pollution model -- Pollution transport by advection only -- Macrodispersion --
• MODELING SEAWATER INTRUSION: The interface in a coastal aquifer -- Modeling seawater intrusion in a vertical plane -- Modeling regional seawater intrusion -- INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL METHODS: Analytical versus numerical solutions -- Survey of numerical methods -- Computer programming -- THE FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD: Steady flow -- Unsteady flow -- Accuracy and stability -- Generalizations -- THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD: Steady flow -- Steady flow in a confined aquifer -- Steady flow with infiltration and leakage -- Steady flow through a dam -- Unsteady flow in an aquifer -- Generalizations -- TRANSPORT BY ADVECTION: Basic equations -- Semi-Analytic solution -- System of wells in an infinite field -- System of wells in an infinite strip -- Numerical solution in terms of the piezometric head -- Numerical solution in terms of the stream function -- Tracing particles along a stream line -- TRANSPORT BY ADVECTION AND DISPERSION: Dispersion in one-dimensional flow -- Numerical dispersion -- A finite element model for two-dimensional problems -- Random walk model -- NUMERICAL MODELING OF SEA WATER INTRUSION: Model for flow in a vertical plane -- Basic equations for a regional model of seawater intrusion -- Finite element model for regional interface problems.

ISBN

• 155608014X :
• 1556080158 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^87016389^

OCLC

• 16080607
• SCSB-13030136

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library