Learning Outcomes
Homogenization courses are structured so that they serve the following objectives: (a) the enrichment of knowledge of the postgraduate students of the programme “Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development” who are not civil engineers, in specific scientific and technological subjects which constitute the basic background knowledge of some postgraduate courses of the programme and (b) the familiarization of the specific postgraduate students with the scientific and technological fields in question in order to facilitate their selection of the elective courses.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Water in nature. Current legislation in Greece and Europe. The water cycle and the main characteristics of the movement of water. Introduction to surface hydrology, main principles, and definitions. Floods and droughts, intensity-duration curves, surface runoffs. Groundwater resources. Darcy's law. Applications of numerical analysis. Phreatic and under-pressures aquifers. Well systems.
Keywords
Water resources, Legislation, Surface hydrology, Groundwater resources