M.Tech / ICAR-NET · SWCE

Flow Through Porous Media

SWCE-506 Soil & Water Conservation Engineering

Syllabus topic plan

1. 01Aquifer and fluid properties; forces holding water in soils
2. 02Hydrodynamics in porous media and limitations of governing laws
3. 03Differential equations of saturated flow; initial and boundary conditions
4. 04Dupuit and Boussinesq approximations and linearization
5. 05Stream functions, potential functions and flow net theory
6. 06Analysis of seepage from canals and ditches
7. 07Unsaturated flow theory; infiltration and capillary rise dynamics
8. 08Groundwater movement in fractured and swelling porous media
9. 09Hydrodynamic dispersion in the soil-aquifer system
10. 10Velocity hydrograph and flow characteristics at singular points
11. 11Seepage influence on slope stability and drainage methods

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