1. History of Groundwater Hydrology

• Water Management and Water Science Before the 19th Century
• Developments in Subsurface Hydrology
• Main Trends Since the Early 1980s

2. Geological Occurrence of Groundwater

• Importance of Groundwater
• Earth Materials
• Important Hydraulic Properties of Earth Materials and Groundwater, with Examples
• Water in the Unsaturated Zone
• Water in the Saturated Zone
• Protection of Groundwater Supplies
• Groundwater and Modern Environmental Concerns

3. Elementary Groundwater Flow and Transport Processes

• Pressure, Suction, Piezometric Head, and Hydraulic Gradient
• The Motion of Groundwater
• Flow Through Porous Media-Darcy's Law
• One-Dimensional Hydraulics
• One-Dimensional Flow Through Porous Media - Leaky Aquifers
• Dupuit-Forchheimer Assumptions
• Velocity Potential, Force Potential, and Flow Nets
• Laplace's Equation
• Land Subsidence
• Salt Water Interfaces
• Groundwater Quality
• Transport Mechanisms of Dissolved Contaminants
• Monitoring, Site Remediation, and Landfills
• Parameter Values

4. Two- and Three-Dimensional Flow of Groundwater

• Groundwater Flow Equations
• Hydraulic Approach to Groundwater Flow
• Examples of Solutions

5. Groundwater and Seepage: Accounting for Variability

• Some Groundwater Fundamentals
• Some Probabilistic Fundamentals
• The Flow Net
• The Point Estimate Method (PEM)
• Method of Fragments
• Flow in Layered Systems
• Piping: Reliability

6. Soil Properties and Moisture Movement in the Unsaturated Zone

• Physical and Hydraulic Soil Properties
• Conceptual Aspects of Unsaturated Soil Water Flow
• Analytical Solutions of the Unsaturated Flow Equation
• Scaling Principles

7. Rewritten Infiltration

• Soil Properties and Processes of Infiltration
• Infiltration Equations
• Infiltration Measurement Methods
• Spatial Variability Considerations
• Infiltration into Sealed or Crusted Soils

8. Infiltration and Run-on Under Spatially Variable Hydrologic Properties

• Characterization of Spatial Variability
• Numerical Simulation Results
• Theoretical Results

9. Modeling the Movement of Water and Solute Through Preferential Flow Paths and Fractures

• Dual-Porosity Models for a Sharp Change at the at the Fracture-Matrix Interface
• A Dual-Porosity Model for Gradual Change in Matrix Structure and Concentration at the Fracture-Matrix Interface
• Dual-Porosity Models with a Distribution Layer at the Soil Surface
• Multi-Pore Group Models

10. Well Hydraulics and Aquifer Tests

• Well-Flow Equations
• Performance of an Aquifer Test
• Time-Drawdown Analyses
• Distance-Drawdown Analyses
• Interpretation of Heterogeneous Aquifers

11. Well Design and Construction

• Well-Field Equations
• Aquifer and Well Losses
• Step-Drawdown Tests
• Well Design
• Well Construction and Maintenance

12. Sea Water Instrusion Into Coastal Aquifers

• Mathematical Modeling of Sea Water Intrusion
• Numerical Modeling and Computer Code
• Examples of Sea Water Intrusion
• Introduction to the Management of a Coastal Aquifer

13. Groundwater and Heat Flow

• Basic Thermodynamics
• Flow of Heat
• Sources of Heat Flow to and from Earth's Surface
• Applications

14. Hydrogeological Characterization Using Geophysical Methods

• Common Geophysical Methods for Hydrogeologiocal Characterization
• Hydrogeophysical Concepts
• Stochastic Forward and Inverse Modeling Using Hydrogeophysical Datasets

15. Geophysical and Tracer Characterization Methods

• Simulation/Optimization Methods for Aquifer Property Estimation
• Application of Geophysical Methods to Environmental Problems
• Ground-Penetrating Radar
• Cross-Well Tomography
• Combining Geophysical and Tracer Data
• Dynamic Imaging of Tracer and Contaminant Plumes

Chapters 16-36

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