Groundwater Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Groundwater Engineering (subject code ME03000181) as prescribed for GE · Semester 3 divides the course into 6 units, covering 33 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 (ME03000181)Unit 1 INTRODUCTION
- Occurrence of ground water
- geological formations as aquifers
- types of aquifers
- ground water movement
- Darcy’s law, permeability and its measurement
- tracing of ground water movement
- fundamental equations for steady and unsteady ground water flow
- flow nets
Unit 2 WELL HYDRAULICS
- Steady and unsteady flow in confined
- semi-confined and unconfined aquifers
- radial flow
- multiple well system
- Different methods of well construction
- construction of well casings and screens
- natural and artificial gravel packed wells
- Safe yields
- pumping and recuperation tests
- Infiltration galleries
Unit 3 ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE OF GROUND WATER
- Ground-water replenishment
- Artificial recharge of ground water
- different methods
- selection criteria for various methods
- cone of depression
Unit 4 GROUNDWATER MODELING TECHNIQUES
- Porous media models
- analog models
- electric analog models
- digital computer models
Unit 5 SALT WATER INTRUSION
- interface and its location
- control of intrusion
Unit 6 TRANSPORT OF POLLUTANTS IN GROUND WATER
- Pollutant transport
- Plume Transport
- source identification
- tracer methods
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