COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN GROUNDWATER

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CIE 5131 CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN GROUNDWATER ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING AND WATER RESOURCES

Course Objective

The groundwater which is the most reliable resource of drinking water continues to be polluted due to industrial and agricultural activities. The contaminant transport by groundwater can be studied in details only if the differential equations related to groundwater flow and sediment transport are solved adequately. Some analytical solutions can be obtained after simplifications and assumptions. The important engineering applications with complex boundary conditions are usually analyzed by advanced numerical solution methods. The basic concepts and principles of groundwater contamination are described and various numerical procedures are provided.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To provide the fundamentals of contaminant transport
2   To provide the importance of contaminant transport in engineering applications
3   To provide the illustrative examples related to contaminant transport
4   To provide modern analysis methods of contaminant transport
5   To interrelate the computed values with those observed in nature

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Groundwater sources and groundwater flow
2 Modeling of the groundwater flow
3 Types of the groundwater contamination
4 Modeling of the groundwater contamination by advection
5 Modeling of the groundwater contamination by diffusion
6 Modeling of the groundwater contamination by dispersion
7 Determination of dispersivity values in situ and in laboratory
8 Evaluation and Comments related to homeworks
9 Analytical solution of the sediment transport equations
10 Semi-analytical solution of the sediment transport equations
11 Numerical solution techniques of the sediment transport equations
12 Numerical solution techniques of the sediment transport equations(cont.)
13 MID TERM EXAMINATION
14 Submission of homeworks and general evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

BEDIENT, P. B. ; RIFAI, H.S.; NEWELL, C.J.; Groundwater
Contamination, Prentice Hall PTR, New Jersey, 1994
FETTER, C.W.; Contaminant Hydrogeology , Macmillan Publishing Co., New York,1993

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures from the textbooks, appraisal of the homeworks

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sukru.guney@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced to students at the beginning of semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Tutorials 0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 5 7 35
Final 1 4 4
Midterm 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.255
LO.35544
LO.44445
LO.55

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