MAE 123. Transport in Porous Media
Winter 2014
This course provides an introduction to groundwater flow and pollution
transport in the subsurface. Specific topics include Darcy law,
fundamentals of flow, diffusion and dispersion in porous media,
introduction to well hydraulics, fundamentals of adsorption and surface
reactions, and chemistry of fluid-solid interactions.
Instructor:
- Prof. Daniel M. Tartakovsky, Office: Room 577 EBU II, E-mail: dmt@ucsd.edu
Teaching Assistant:
- Kimoon Um, E-mail: kium@ucsd.edu
Lectures:
- 2:00pm-3:20pm, Tu Th, PCYNH 122
Office Hours:
- Instructor: by appointment
- Teaching Assistant: 10:00am-11:20am, Wed
Academic prerequisites:
- Engineering majors and students receiving a grade of C- or
better in MAE105 and MAE107
Prerequisites by topic:
- Elementary fluid mechanics,
- Differential and integral calculus,
- Elementary ordinary differential equations,
- Elementary partial differential equations
Textbook:
- Class notes
- G. Pinder and M. Celia, Subsurface Hydrology
- P. M. Adler, J.-F. Thovert , V. V. Mourzenko, Fractured Porous Mediar
Course grade:
- The final course grade will be based on the homework assignments (0%), the mid-term exams (50%), and the final (50%). You may discuss homework problems, but must prepare homework reports on your own.
- First midterm exam: February 13, Tu, 2:00pm-3:20pm (Sample exam)
- Second midterm exam: March 6, Th, 2:00pm-3:20pm (Sample exam)
- Final exam: March 20, Th, 3:00pm-6:00pm
Reading assignments:
- M. Specter, The last drop: Confronting the possibility of a
global catastrophe, The New Yorker, October 23, 2006. (pdf)
- E. J. W. Visser and G. M. Bogemann, Measurement of porosity in
very small samples of plant tissue, Plant and Soil, 253, 81-90,
2003. (pdf)
- B. P. Mohanty, R. S. Kanwar, and C. J. Everts, Comparison of
saturated hydraulic conductivity measurement methods for a
glacial-till soil, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 58(3), 672-677, 1994. (pdf)
- B. D. R. Misstear, The value of simple equilibrium
approximations for analysing pumping test data, Hydrogeol. J., 9,
125-126, 2001. (pdf)
- E. J. Ford, Soil water retention determination using the
Wetlab facility at CSIRO, Davies Laboratory, Technical Report 2/97. (pdf)
- D. O. Johnson, F. J. Arriaga, and Birl Lowery, Automation of a
falling head permeameter for rapid determination of hydraulic
conductivity of multiple samples, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 69, 828-833,
2005. (pdf)
- A. J. Guswa, M. A. Celia, I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, Models of soil
moisture dynamics in ecohydrology: A comparative study, Water
Resour. Res., 38(9), 1166, doi:10.1029/2001WR000826, 2002. (pdf)
- L. W. Gelhar, C. Welty, and K. R. Rehfeldt, A critical review of
data on field-scale dispersion in aquifers, Water Resour. Res.,
28(7), 1955-1974, 1992. (pdf)
- S. P. K. Sternberg, Dispersion measurements in highly
heterogeneous laboratory scale porous media. Transp. Porous Media,
54, 107-124, 2004. (pdf)
- J. E. McCarthy and J. M. Zachara, Subsurface transport of contaminants,
Environ. Sci. Technol., 23(5), 496-502, 1989. (pdf)
Class notes and homework:
- Class notes are available in the pdf format here.
- Homework and exams must be written clearly and neatly. No late homework will be accepted.
(HW1) due date: Tu, January 14 (Solutions)
(HW2) due date: Tu, January 28 (Solutions)
(HW3) due date: Tu, February 4 (Solutions)
(HW4) due date: Tu, February 25 (Solutions)
Final projects / Review of USGS reports: