Transport Processes in the Vadose Zone

Code:	143TPVZ
Year:	1
Obligation:	Optional
Assessment:	Credit
Semester:	Winter
Responsible lecturer:	prof. Ing. Milena Císlerová, CSc.
Description:	Lectures: Description of the mechanisms that govern the movement of fluids and contaminant transport in aquifers and in the unsaturated zone. Seminars in the computer lab: Introduction in the simulation models and their application. Contents: 1. Solute transport in the subsurface, complexity of the problem. 2. Miscible flow, conservative transport. 3. Advection-dispersion equation, boundary conditions, methods of solution. 4. Velocity field determination. 5. Dispersion characteristics, scale dependence, methods of determination. 6. Parameter identification, inverse optimization programs. 7. Transport of reacting species, types of reactions. 8. Numerical simulation models. 9. Tracer experiments in the subsurface hydrology. 10. Multiphase (immiscible) flow, NAPLs. 11. Mathematical description of multiphase flow. 12. Geochemical and multiphase simulation models. 13. Case studies. 14. Summary and outlines.

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