Groundwater Hydrology

Abstract

Groundwater is an important resource, and its exploration, planning, and management play a significant role in the effective utilization of it for domestic, irrigation, industrial, and other purposes. Groundwater hydrology deals with quality and quantity aspects of groundwater, and it is a broad field with many ramifications. There is an ever-increasing demand for information on groundwater hydrology by students and professionals in several fields. In this book, an attempt has been made to present the basic principles of groundwater movement in aquifers and management of groundwater. The principles of groundwater flow are presented through elaborate derivation of governing differential equations and their analytical solutions for simple boundary conditions. At the same time, the book incorporates sufficient theoretical material to grasp the concepts even by bypassing the clutter of mathematical equations. It has an appropriate focus on both aspects of groundwater: resource development as well as contamination transport and quality management. There is a separate chapter on groundwater flow solution by complex analysis, and the book contains substantial original material on solutions by the author to seepage from canals using conformal mapping, stream-depletion problem, flowing-well problem, and some case studies.