20810166-2 - COASTAL HYDROLOGY-COASTAL CONTAMINANTS

Coastal Hydrology - A course introduces the students to surface and subsurface hydrology and provides the modeling skills for solving practical problems dealing with water exchange at the costal boundary.
This course is part of the master's degree program in "Sustainable Coastal and Ocean Engineering", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualification for development of coastal and marine infrastructures, with an increasing concern towards environmental protection and sustainable development under environmental changing conditions.
Within this framework, the course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of 1) the main physical processes involved in water cycle, 2) the fundamental issues related to water resources use, 3) the measurement and analysis of hydrologic data, 4) the hydrologic modeling of transport in aquifers and vadose zone, 5) the hydrologic modeling of surface processes at the catchment scale, contributing to water exchange across the coastal boundary and through the sea, and 6) the main criteria to develop a complex hydrological model, with specific focus on the interface with coastal and ocean environments. 
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Programme

1. Introduction to the contamination problem, Contaminant Classification
2. Basic transport mechanisms in GW - ADE
3. Introduction to reactive transport, Sorbing solutes
4. Multi-Phase Flow, NAPL
5. Remediation techniques

6. Coastal GW systems, seawater intrusion
7. Governing equation (variable density flow)
8. SWI approach, analytical solution, application examples
9. Land reclamation introduction and application example with SWI solutions


Core Documentation

Contaminant Hydrogeology
C.W. Fetter, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1999.
ISBN 10: 0137512155 / ISBN 13: 9780137512157


Coastal Hydrogeology
J. Jiao, V. Post, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-107-03059-6


Type of delivery of the course

Face-To-Face lessons Exercices

Type of evaluation

During the exam the exercises and the main topic of the course will be discussed