GLY-5826

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GLY-5826

• Objectives, Format, and Goals

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What this course is

• Basic, simple numerical methods
• Comparisons with analytical solutions
• Boundary conditions!
• Simple flow models
• Geostatistics
• MODFLOW

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What this course is not

• Large modeling package training
• Numerical methods
• Seawater intrusion

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Format

• Lectures
• Tools
• Basic theory
• Computational aspects
• Learn the math!
• Hands on
• Create and manipulate programs
• Match analytical solutions and observations
• Homework is mostly self-correcting

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Syllabus

• http//www.fiu.edu/sukopm/GLY5826/Syllabus_GLY582
  6.pdf

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What I Expect

• Class participation
• Attendance
• Attention
• Questions (and answers)
• Knowledge/Skills
• Understand model dimensionality
• Be able to derive basic flow and transport
  equations
• Be able to compute first and second order
  derivatives numerically
• Understand and apply boundary and initial
  conditions to flow problems
• Understanding is key

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Semester Project

• Individual or group
• Example group project FIU Ground Water Model
• Collect available well, canal, lake,
  precipitation, transmissivity, pumping, ET etc.
  data.
• Develop model
• Present data and results
• Application?