Groundwater Science - Softcover

Fitts, Charles R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 012811455X ISBN 13: 9780128114551

Publisher: Academic Press, 2023

Synopsis

Groundwater Science, Third Edition covers physical and chemical aspects of groundwater science, with emphasis on applications in the hydrologic cycle and in water supply, including contamination, mining, and construction issues. This interdisciplinary text weaves important methods and applications from the disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology, and environmental science, introducing the mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport. This fully updated edition includes all new case studies, expanded ancillary materials (including software), and expanded problems. The book is a valuable resource for students and instructors in the geosciences, environmental sciences, and civil engineering with a focus on hydrology and hydrogeology.

• Offers discussions of groundwater modeling, calibration, parameter estimation, and uncertainty
• Includes content on well construction and design, surface water hydrology, groundwater/ surface water interaction, slug tests, pumping tests, and mounding analysis
• Provides free software tools for slug test analysis, pumping test analysis, heat flow analysis, groundwater flow modeling
• Includes end-of-chapter problems, some quantitative and some conceptual
• Student web site includes links to software and numerous videos that illustrate concepts in the book

About this title

About the Author

Charles R. Fitts is a professor at the University of Southern Maine with research interests in hydrogeology, contaminant migration, and applied mathematics. He earned an MS in engineering geology at Cornell and a PhD in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. He has consulted for various geotechnical and groundwater companies, and is author of several groundwater modeling software packages: AnAqSim (analytic aquifer simulator) and TWODAN for groundwater flow, and SOLUTRANS for solute transport.

From the Back Cover

Groundwater Science, Third Edition covers physical and chemical aspects of groundwater science, with emphasis on applications role in the hydrologic cycle and in water supply, contamination, mining, and construction issues. This interdisciplinary text weaves important methods and applications from the disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology, and environmental science, introducing you to the mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport. The previous edition won a Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association. This fully updated edition includes all new case studies, expanded ancillary materials (including software) and expanded problems.

It is a valuable resource for students and instructors in the geosciences, environmental sciences, and civil engineers with focuses in hydrology, hydrogeology, and environmental science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 012811455X
• ISBN 13: 9780128114551
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 680