Ground Water Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Ground Water Management (subject code ME02033011) as prescribed for C(RE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 30 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 (ME02033011)Unit 1 Introduction to Groundwater
- Definition of groundwater
- role of groundwater in hydrological cycle
- Balance equation
- Basic terminologies of Ground water characteristics
- Types of aquifers
- flow and storage characteristics of aquifers
- Groundwater investigation methods
- Aquifer parameters and their determination
- Development of groundwater
Unit 2 Groundwater Flow
- Law of groundwater movement-Darcy’s law and its application
- Dupuit assumptions
- General differential equations governing steady and unsteady flow for confined and unconfined aquifers and analytical solutions
- Initial and boundary conditions
Unit 3 Well Hydraulics
- Type of Wells
- Multiple well System
- Well Design criteria
- Construction and maintenance
- Steady and unsteady radial flow in a well
- Well flow near aquifer boundaries-Image wells
- Method of images
Unit 4 Ground Water Quality
- Introduction to ground water flow and contaminant transport process
- Impact of climate change Sea Water intrusion in coastal aquifers
- methods of its prevention and control
- Groundwater pollution remediation and legislation
Unit 5 GroundWater Flow Modelling and Management
- Role of groundwater flow models
- Introduction to ground water modeling through porous media/analog/digital computer models like MODFLOW
- MT3DMS Groundwater basin management and conjunctive use, groundwater basin investigation
- data collection and field work
- artificial recharge of aquifers
- methods of artificial recharge