GROUND WATER HYDRAULICS

Course Information
TitleΥΠΟΓΕΙΕΣ ΡΟΕΣ / GROUND WATER HYDRAULICS
CodeΓ23
FacultyEngineering
SchoolRural and Surveying Engineering
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CoordinatorPantelis Sidiropoulos
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID20000982
Class Information
Academic Year2024 – 2025
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
600268040
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
Engineering Hydrology Numerical Analysis Applications of Mathematics Mathematics
Learning Outcomes
The course helps students to develop their technical and intellectual ability preparing them for the engineering profession and for postgraduate studies. The course introduces students to the topic of flow in a saturated porous media and to computational techniques of Subsurface Hydraulics/Hydrology used in the professional practice of Civil Engineering. At the end of the course students should have: - Understand flow in a saturated porous media/soil - Understand the theoretical background of flow in a saturated porous media/soil - Familiarity with the properties of soils, particularly those related to water and its movement in saturated soil - Ability to apply Darcy's Law to subsurface flow problems - Ability to apply mathematical simulations of underground flow. - Ability to calculate free surface flows and flows in pressurised aquifers - Ability to calculate permanent and non-permanent flow in wells and well systems
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Design and manage projects
  • Respect natural environment
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
A/A teaching week Contents of the course 1 - Introduction. The subject of Underground Hydraulics. Groundwater and its importance in water resources management. - Aquifers and classification of aquifers. Examples 2 - Characteristics and parameters of soils and groundwater aquifers. Permeability coefficient, physical permeability. Measurement of permeability. Inhomogeneity and anisotropy. - Darcy's Law - scope. Dupuit's assumption. Examples 3. The mathematical problem of underground flow. The equation of continuity. The flow equations in underground aquifers. Initial and boundary conditions. Flow and potential line networks. 4. Analog and physical models. Analytical methods of solving the mathematical model of groundwater flow. Examples. 5 - Flow equation in free-surface aquifers. Boussinesq equation. Examples. - Flow equation in pressurized aquifers. Examples. 6. Permanent flow to a ditch: a) pressurized aquifer, b) free-surface aquifer. Examples. 7. Permanent flow to a ditch: a) pressurized aquifer, b) free-surface aquifer. Examples. 8. Permanent flow to a well: a) pressurized aquifer, b) free surface aquifer. Examples. 9. Permanent flow to well: a) pressurized aquifer, b) free surface aquifer. Examples. 10. Well systems. The method of pictures. Examples. 11. Numerical models of groundwater aquifers. Finite difference method. Method of finite elements. Method of boundary elements. 12 - Time-varying (non-permanent) flow. The test pumping technique. Determination of hydrogeological parameters. Theis and Jacob methods. Examples. - The intubation effect and the critical gradient of the hydraulic load. Examples. 13 - Time-varying (non-permanent) flow. The test pumping technique. Determination of hydrogeological parameters. Theis and Jacob methods.Examples. - The intubation effect and the critical gradient of the hydraulic load. Examples.
Keywords
Grroundwater flow, aquifers, steady flow, un-steady flow
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Lectures with PowerPoint, Notes, Exercises and Announcements in e-learning
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures39✓
Laboratory Work60✓
Reading Assigment78✓
Exams3✓
Total180
Student Assessment
Description
The lectures of the course are combined with corresponding laboratory exercises and applications on which a significant part of the assessment is based. 100% Written examination: Open books and notes. No audiovisual media. Short answer questions and problem solving/exercises in underground hydraulics.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Written Exam with Problem Solving (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Λατινόπουλος, Π. «Υδραυλική των Υπόγειων Ροών», Εκδ.  ΧΑΡΙΣ Μ.Ε.Π.Ε., σελ. 240, 2006. ISBN: 978-960-98154-5-1. [Προτεινόμενο σύγγραμμα: Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 6861]. Τολίκας, Δ. «Υπόγεια Υδραυλική», Εκδ. Επίκεντρο, σελ. 240, 2005. ISBN: 978-960-88731-7-9. [Προτεινόμενο σύγγραμμα: Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 15196]
Additional bibliography for study
Σημειώσεις του διδάσκοντα. Επικουρική Βιβλιογραφία: 1) Βουδούρης, Κ. «Τεχνική Υδρογεωλογία-Υπόγεια Νερά», Εκδ. Τζιόλα, σελ. 448, 2014. ISBN: 978-960-418-407-1. 2) Bear, J., “Hydraulics of Groundwater” McGraw-Hill, 1979. 3) Toth, J., “Gravitational Systems of Groundwater Flow - Theory, Evaluation, Utilization”, Cambridge University Press, 2018. 4) Todd, K. D. and Mays, L.W. “Groundwater Hydrology”, Third Edition, Wiley, 2005 5) Mays, L.W. “Ground and Surface Water Hydrology”, Wiley 2012.
Last Update
16-01-2025