After successful completion of this course you can

• Select suitable investigation methods of groundwater resources.

• Explain the importance of groundwater for drinking water supply.

• State and apply the legal frameworks for groundwater protection.

• Judge which questions can be addressed with groundwater models.

• Assign the most important types of groundwater models, as well as their capabilities and limits.

• Evaluate the quality of groundwater models.

Introduction into the field of groundwater resource management

Conveying the benefit of groundwater models for answering basic questions related to water management

Introduction into the methodological principles: model types, assumptions, and limits, input data, boundary conditions, calibrating and validating the model accuracy and determining uncertainties

Description of practical case studies.

Step-by-step instruction for planning and conceptualizing a numerical groundwater model for a practical application, subsequent independent application with an available model software.

Presentation of the chosen procedure and results of the question related to water management and subsequent discussion.

Einführende Literatur

Applied Groundwater Modeling, MP. Anderson, WW. Woessner

Introduction to groundwater modeling: finite difference and finite element methods, HF. Wang, MP. Anderson

Skriptum zur Grundwassermodellierung, AP. Blaschke

Europäische Wasserrahmenrichtlinie (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/index_en.html)

The course will be graded based on a written exam, as well as a 15 minutes presentation of a predefined topic and the participation in the discussion of the presentations.

Anwesenheitspflicht bei den Übungen

Grundlagen der Statistik, ingenieurmäßige Darstellung von Methoden und Berechnungsergebnissen mit einer geeigneten Hilfssoftware (z.B. Excel, R, Matlab,¿).