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Quantitative hydrogeology : groundwater hydrology for engineers / Ghislain de Marsily ; translated by Gunilla de Marsily

Author
Marsily, Ghislain de.
Uniform Title
Hydrogéologie quantitative. English
Published
Orlando, FL : Academic Press, 1986.
Physical Description
xix, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
THE WATER CYCLE: Wetting and Infiltration -- Surface runoff -- Evaporation -- Snow -- Schematization of the hydrologic cycle -- Different branches of hydrology -- Other possible origins of groundwater -- ROCK POROSITY AND FLUID- SOLID RELATIONS IN POROUS MEDIA: Total porosity -- Fluid-solid relations in porous media -- Porosity measurements -- Measurements of the water pressure in the ground -- BASIC CONCEPTS IN HYDRAULICS: General equations of fluid mechanics -- Continuity equation in porous media -- Hydraulic and piezometric head -- Simplification and integration of the navier-stokes equations for schematic porous media -- DARCY's LAW: Darcy's experiment, hydraulic conductivity, permeability, and transmissivity -- Limitations on the validity of Darcy's Law -- Permeability measurements on samples -- Probabilistic approach to permeability and spatial variability -- Movement of water due to the influence of other forces -- INTEGRATION OF THE ELEMENTARY EQUATIONS, THE DIFFUSION EQUATIOM, AND CONSOLIDATION -- Diffusion Equation in unconfined aquifers -- Terzaghi's theory of consolidation effect of interstitial water on porous media -- General diffusion equation: confined aquifers -- Highly compressible soils -- Other diffusion equations -- AQUIFER SYSTEMS: Aquifer types -- Aquifer reserves -- Usual boundary Conditions and initial conditions -- STEADY STATE SOLUTIONS OF THE DIFFUSION EQUATION: General properties of the diffusion equation -- Parallel flow: first solution in a steady state -- Two-dimensional solutions in radial flow -- Elementary solution in spherical coordinates -- Complex potential in two dimensions -- TRANSIENT SOLUTIONS OF THE DIFFUSION EQUATION, PUMPING TESTS, AND MEASUREMENTS OF AQUIFER PROPERTIES: Elementary solutions in radial coordinates -- Interpretation of a pumping test -- Leakage in radial coordinate systems -- Additional analytical solutions for the flow toward a Well -- Other (One-dimensional) Solutions to the diffusion equation -- In situ point measurements of permeability -- MULTIPHASE FLOW OF IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS: Theory -- Special case: flow in unsaturated media -- Movement of separating interfaces -- Multiphase pollution problems -- FLOW OF MISCIBLE FLUIDS: DISPERSION, RETENTION, AND HEAT TRANSFER: Solute transport of nonreactive substances -- Laws of interactions between the immobile phase and the transported substances and physicochemical changes in the substances -- Heat transfer in porous media -- GEOSTATIC AND STOCHASTIC APPROACH IN HYDROGEOLOGY: The problem of estimation: definition of kriging -- Kriging in the stationary case, use of the covariance -- Kriging in the intrinsic case: definition of the variogram -- A few remarks about kriging -- Statistical inference -- A few additional remarks about kriging -- Nonstationary problems -- Examples of kriging -- Co-kriging -- Stochastic partial differential equations -- NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF THE FLOW AND TRANSPORT EQUATIONS: Selection of a numerical technique and a code -- Finite differences -- Finite elements -- Solving large linear systems -- Solving the transport equation -- Use of a model.
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ISBN
0122089154 (alk. paper)
0122089162 (pb)
Note
Translation of: Hydrogéologie quantitative.
Includes index.
Bibliography Note
Bibliography: pages 418-434.
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