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Overview
Civil Engineering : Origins and types of groundwater; Darcy's law; hydraulic anisotropy; conservation laws; fundamental equations of porous media flow; Laplace's and Poisson's equations: analytical solution of potential flow problems; determination of hydraulic conductivity; flow in unconfined and confined acquifers; seepage modelling; unsaturated flow; transient flows in porous media; introduction to computational methods.
Terms: Winter 2012
Instructors: Selvadurai, Patrick A P S (Winter)
(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: CIVE 311 or Permission of Instructor.