SCOPE OF THE COURSE IS TO FURTHER DEVELOP AND DEEPEN THE KNOWLEDGE ON HYDROLOGY - BOTH SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE - LEADING TO THE MODELING OF THE MAIN HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES OF PRACTICAL INTEREST. THE COURSE IS ORGANIZED IN TWO DISTINCT PARTS: (I) A SERIES OF LECTURES IN WHICH THE MAIN ASPECTS AND THEMES OF HYDROLOGY ARE INTRODUCED AND DISCUSSED, AND (II) A SERIES OF EXERCISES DEVOTED TO THE SOLUTIONS OF PROBLEMS OF PRACTICAL INTEREST, AND IN PARTICULAR TWO THOROUGH STUDIES ON SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY.
teacher profile teaching materials
Water flow in saturated porous media; the scale effect; REV and the Darcy scale; Dupuit approximation; flow equations at the local and regional scales; transmissivity and storativity; boundary conditions; types of solutions; direct and inverse problems;
Water flow in unsaturated porous media; pedofunctions; Richards equation; infiltration and redistribution.
Well hydraulics; analysis of pumping well; characteristic curve; pumping tests and diagnostic curves.
Evaporation; energy and aerodynamic method; mixed method; practical formulas.
Mechanisms of streamflow generation; losses; rainfall-runoff lumped models; IUH and WFIUH; parameter estimation.
Elements of contaminant hydrogeology.
Exercises: studies on surface and subsurface hydrology based on the use of commercial software (HEC-HMS and MODFLOW)
“Applied Hydrology”, Chow et al., McGraw-Hill
“Handbook of Hydrology”, Maidment, McGraw-Hill
“Quantitative Hydrogeology”, deMarsily, Academic Press
“Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: The Primer”, Beven, Wiley
“Applied Groundwater Modeling”, Anderson e Woessner, Academic Press
“Idrologia tecnica”, Moisello, La Goliardica Pavese
Programme
Introduction to hydrology; the water cycle and water balance; general information on the hydrological models; genesis of rainfall; spatial-temporal distribution of rainfall and their spatial average; stochastic interpolation.Water flow in saturated porous media; the scale effect; REV and the Darcy scale; Dupuit approximation; flow equations at the local and regional scales; transmissivity and storativity; boundary conditions; types of solutions; direct and inverse problems;
Water flow in unsaturated porous media; pedofunctions; Richards equation; infiltration and redistribution.
Well hydraulics; analysis of pumping well; characteristic curve; pumping tests and diagnostic curves.
Evaporation; energy and aerodynamic method; mixed method; practical formulas.
Mechanisms of streamflow generation; losses; rainfall-runoff lumped models; IUH and WFIUH; parameter estimation.
Elements of contaminant hydrogeology.
Exercises: studies on surface and subsurface hydrology based on the use of commercial software (HEC-HMS and MODFLOW)
Core Documentation
“Physical Hydrology”, Dingmann, Prentice Hall ; Chapters: 2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 6, 7.1, 7.7,7.8, 8, 9“Applied Hydrology”, Chow et al., McGraw-Hill
“Handbook of Hydrology”, Maidment, McGraw-Hill
“Quantitative Hydrogeology”, deMarsily, Academic Press
“Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: The Primer”, Beven, Wiley
“Applied Groundwater Modeling”, Anderson e Woessner, Academic Press
“Idrologia tecnica”, Moisello, La Goliardica Pavese