Læringsmål

The students will get knowledge about interaction between groundwater/surface water, groundwater contamination, mathematical modelling of groundwater flow and transport of contamination.

The students will learn

· the interaction between groundwater flow and surface water including the physics, the chemistry, the ecology

· how different contamination sources impact aquifers

· groundwater modelling by the finite difference method

· build, calibrate, and verify a model for flow between an aquifer and surface water using MODFLOW with the interface PMWIN

· modelling capture zones for wells

· build, calibrate, and verify a model for transport of a conservative tracer like chlorine

Innhold

· Aquifers, rivers and water balance
· Ground water flow modelling. Finite difference method
· Exercises in PMWIN
· Short field survey
· Modelling and simulating flow in effluent and influent aquifers
· Modelling capture zones for wells
· Sources of groundwater contamination
· Transport of groundwater contamination
· Modelling of contamination transport

Links:

http://www.mines.edu/igwmc/Colorado School of Mines
International Ground Water Modelling Centre Colorado 80401-1887, USAGolden,

http://water.usgs.gov/software/ground_water.html
USGS Ground-Water Software

http://www.epa.gov/safewater/
EPA Ground water and drinking water

http://www.ngwa.org/publication/gw/gw-menu.html
Journal of Ground Water

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503343/description#description
Journal of hydrology

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/water/
Water policy in the European Union

http://www.who.int/en/
World Health Organization

http://www.euro.who.int/
World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe

Organisering

Lectures, field work, computer works

Vurderingsformer

Students have to make a ground water flow model and a transport model. They shall express the water balance for the area, comment the flow and transport pattern and document the calibration of the models.

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