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Copyright
Dedication
The Groundwater Project Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
3.1 Total Porosity
3.2 Effective Porosity
3.3 Primary and Secondary Porosity
3.4 Void Ratio
3.5 Volumetric Moisture Content
3.6 Specific Yield and Specific Retention
3.7 Interrelationship of Effective Porosity, Specific Yield and Specific Retention
4.1 Darcy’s Law
4.2 Hydraulic Head
4.3 Hydraulic Gradient
4.4 Hydraulic Conductivity
4.5 Applicability of Darcy’s Law
4.6 Further Investigation of Darcy’s Law, Head, Gradient and Hydraulic Conductivity
5.1 Conditions Effecting Hydraulic Conductivity Values
5.2 Methods to Estimate Hydraulic Conductivity
5.3 Hydraulic Conductivity Values for Earth Materials
5.4 Spatial and Directional Variation of Hydraulic Conductivity
5.5 Hydraulic Conductivity of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Materials
5.6 Hydraulic Conductivity in Fractured Rocks
6.1 Unconfined Aquifers
6.2 Perched Aquifers
6.3 Confined Aquifers
6.4 Properties of Aquifers and Confining Units
7.1 Basis for Flow Equation Development
7.2 Governing Equations for Confined Transient Groundwater Flow
7.3 Governing Equations for Unconfined Groundwater Flow
7.4 Steady State Equations Describing Confined and Unconfined Flow
7.5 Applying Governing Equations
8.1 Mapping the Head Distribution
8.2 Determining Groundwater Flow Directions
8.3 The Influence of Boundary Conditions
8.4 Analysis of Groundwater Flow Systems
8.5 Examples of Flow Systems
Box 1 Density of Common Minerals, Rock Types and Soils
Box 2 Analyzing Grain-size Distribution
Box 3 Foundation for Understanding Hydraulic Head and Force Potentials
Box 4 Methods for Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity
Box 5 Equation Derivation for Equivalent K and a 4-layer Application
Box 6 Adding Recharge to the Unconfined Aquifer System
Box 7 Transformation for 2-D Flow in an Anisotropic Medium
Box 8 Deriving the Tangent Law of Refraction
Solution to Exercise 1
Solution to Exercise 2
Solution to Exercise 3
Solution to Exercise 4
Solution to Exercise 5
Solution to Exercise 6
Solution to Exercise 7
Solution to Exercise 8
Solution to Exercise 9
Solution to Exercise 10
Solution to Exercise 11
Solution to Exercise 12
Solution to Exercise 13
Solution to Exercise 14
Solution to Exercise 15
Solution to Exercise 16
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