Ground Water Contamination
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The official GTU curriculum for Ground Water Contamination (subject code 2161307) as prescribed for Env. Sci. Eng · Semester 6 divides the course into 6 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2161307)Unit 1 Introduction
- Definition of ground water
- vertical distribution of sub surface water
- hydrological properties of water bearing strata
- ground water in hydrologic cycle
Unit 2 Ground water hydraulics
- Darcy’s law, its range of validity
- Dupuit’s assumptions
- Applications of Darcy’s law for simple flow systems
- Governing differential equations for confined and unconfined aquifers
- steady and unsteady flow solutions for fully penetrating wells
- partially penetrating wells
- interference of wells
- test pumping analysis with steady and unsteady flows
- delayed yield
- method of images
Unit 3 Ground water quality
- Indian and international standards
Unit 4 Ground water pollution
- remedial and preventive measures
Unit 5 Ground water conservation
- Ground water budget
- seepage from surface water
- artificial recharge
Unit 6 Models for ground water flow
- Sampling and monitoring methods
- transport mechanisms
- modelling Advective-Dispersive transport
- Adsorption and chemical reaction
- biodegradation kinetics
- numerical flow and transport modelling
- waste site characterization/investigation
- ground water remediation
- legal issues in ground water contamination
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