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37364 - Environmental Hydrology

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Marco Antonellini
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        GEO/03
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Moduli:
                        
                            Marco Antonellini
                            (Modulo 1)
                        
                            Beatrice Maria Sole Giambastiani
                            (Modulo 2)
                        
                        Teaching Mode:
                        
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
                                
                                    Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
                                
                            Campus:
                            Ravenna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Environmental Assessment and Management (cod. 8418)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

Provide the basic elements to understand the interactions between hydrosphere and environment, fluvial hydrodynamics, groundwater flow, contaminant transport, geochemistry, isotopic geochemistry, and water management under current legislation at the European level (Water Framework Directive). Training will be achieved through lectures, the use of analytical and numerical models, and exercises in the classroom.

Course contents

Module 1: Water framework directive. The water cycle. Processes in the hydrologic cycle. River hydrology. Types of aquifers. Aquifer properties. Darcy law. Flow equations in a porous medium. Mass transport. Dispersion, diffusion. Numerical methods for the solution of flow and transport problems in aquifers. Eulerian and lagrangian approach to transport. PARTICLE FLOW and TOPODRIVE. Pre-requisites to the course is a basic knowledge of the solution of differential equations and of vectorial calculus.

Module 2: hydrochemistry, geochemistry; water classification, behavior of chemical elements, geochemical barriers, speciation and chemical activity, water sampling and monitoring, groundwater salinization. Pre-requisites to the course is a basic knowledge of inorganic chemistry and geochemistry.