NPTEL : Ground Water Hydrology (Civil Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Anirban Dhar, Dr. V.R. Desaai


Lecture 1 - Introduction : Ground Water (GW) Utilization and Historical Background, GW in hydrologic Cycle

Lecture 2 - Ground Water in & % Hydrologic Cycle (Continued...), Ground Water Budget, Ground Water Level Fluctuations and Environmental Influence

Lecture 3 - Ground water Level Fluctuations and Environmental Influence (Continued...) Literature/Data/Internet Resources

Lecture 4 - Ground water Level Fluctuations and Environmental Influence (Continued...) Literature/Data/Internet Resources

Lecture 5 - Occurrence and Movement of Ground Water : Origin and Age of Ground Water, Rock Properties Affecting Ground Water, Ground Water Column

Lecture 6 - Zones of Aeration and Saturation; Aquifers and their characteristics/classification

Lecture 7 - Aquifer Classification (Continued...), Ground water Basins and Springs; Dorcy's Law; Permeability

Lecture 8 - Determination pf Permeability :Heterogeneity and Anisotropy

Lecture 9 - Ground Water (GW) flowrates and flow directions; general flow equations through porous media

Lecture 10 - General Flow Equations Through Porous Media (Continued...), Dupuit's Assumptions

Lecture 11 - 1-D Unconfined Ground water Flows; Steady Flow into Wells

Lecture 12 - Steady Flow into Wells (Continued...); Unsteady Flow into Wells

Lecture 13 - Unsteady Flow into Wells (Continued...)

Lecture 14 - Unsteady Radial Flow in Confined and Unconfined Aquifers

Lecture 15 - Unsteady Radial Flow in Leaky Aquifers (Continued...); Well Flow Near Aquifer Boundaries

Lecture 16 - Well Flow for Special Conditions; Partially Penetrating Wells; Horizontal Wells and Collector Wells;Multiple Well Systems

Lecture 17 - Well Completion;Well Development; Well Protection; Well Rehabilitation; Well testing for Yields

Lecture 18 - Well Protection/Rehabilitation/Testing for yield (Continued...); Artificial Ground Water Recharge : Concept and Methods

Lecture 19 - Concept and methods of Artificial Ground Water Recharge (Continued...); Recharge Mounds and Induced Recharge

Lecture 20 - Induced Recharge (Continued...); Wastewater recharge for reuse; Water spreading

Lecture 21 - Pollution and Quality Analysis of Ground Water : Sources of Pollution of GW-Municipal, Industrial,Agricultural and Miscellaneous

Lecture 22 - Ground Water Pollution from Industrial, Agricultural and Miscellaneous Sources (Continued...)

Lecture 23 - Ground Water Pollution from Miscellaneous Sources (Continued...), Attenuation and Underground Distribution of Pollutants

Lecture 24 - Potential Evaluation of Ground water Pollution; Physical/Chemical/Biological analysis of Ground Water quality; Criteria and measures of Ground water quality

Lecture 25 - Ground water salinity and samples ;Graphical representations of ground water quality

Lecture 26 - Graphical representations of ground water quality (Continued...), Surface/Sub-Surface Investigation Of Ground Water:Geological/geophysical exploration;Remote sensing/electrical resistivity methods

Lecture 27 - Surface Investigation of ground water (Continued...):Electrical resistivity seismic refraction/gravity/magnetic methods

Lecture 28 - Seismic refraction/gravity/magnetic methods (Continued...);Sub-surface investigation of ground water: Geographical/resistivity methods

Lecture 29 - Sub-surface investigation of ground water (Continued...): Geographical/resistivity/spontaneous potential/radiation of methods of logging

Lecture 30 - Radiation method of logging (Continued...); Temperature/caliper/fluid conductivity/fluid velocity/miscellaneous logging methods

Lecture 31 - Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers:Occurence, Features affecting aquifers,Bodon - Ghyben - Hergberg Principle

Lecture 32 - Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers : Bodon - Ghyben - Hergberg principle (Continued...), Analytical Solution of Saline Water Intrusion in Coastal Aquifer

Lecture 33 - Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers : Analytical Solution of Saline Water Intrusion in Coastal Aquifer (Continued...), Density dependent salt water intrusion model

Lecture 34 - Saline Water Intrusion in Aquifers : Geochemical Investigations, Control of salt water intrusion, Practical Modeling of salt water intrusion

Lecture 35 - Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Ground Water Simulation Models, Ground Water Management Model : Confined Aquifer

Lecture 36 - Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Ground Water Management Model : Confined and Unconfined Aquifer, Linked Simulation - Optimization, Meta Model Based Approach

Lecture 37 - Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Contaminant Source Identification , Monitoring Network Design

Lecture 38 - Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Aquifer Yield and Ground Water Availability, Effects of Ground Water Development, Regional Scale Development of Ground Water

Lecture 39 - Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Conjunctive Surface - Subsurface Modeling of Overland Flow including flow through Vadose zone

Lecture 40 - Modeling and Management of Ground Water : Ground Water - Surface Water Interaction