HYDRUS shortcourse: February 4-5, 2012, Bangalore , India
“HYDRUS Training Course”
“Modeling water flow and contaminant transport in soils and groundwater using the HYDRUS software packages”
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Workshop Details
Workshop Overview
Soil and groundwater pollution is an ever-increasing, worldwide problem. In India the groundwater plays a important role with 80 % of rural population and 50% of urban population depending on it. Along with intensive use of groundwater, unscientific development projects and insufficient knowledge of groundwater dynamics is creating long-term problems. Most subsurface pollution problems stem from activities involving the unsaturated (vadose) zone between the soil surface and the groundwater table. The unsaturated zone hence provides the best opportunities to limit or prevent groundwater pollution. Once contaminants enter groundwater, pollution is essentially irreversible, or can be remediated only with extreme costs.
Numerical modeling is becoming an increasingly important tool for analyzing complex problems involving water flow and contaminant transport in the unsaturated zone. This course is designed to familiarize participants with the principles and mathematical analysis of variably-saturated flow and transport processes, and the application of state-of-the-art numerical codes to site-specific subsurface flow and transport problems.
Workshop Location
The workshop will be held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the garden city of India. The workshop is scheduled for two days, 4th and 5th February 2012.
Workshop Description
The course begins with a detailed conceptual and mathematical description of water flow and solute transport processes in the vadose zone, followed by an brief overview of the use of finite element techniques for solving the governing flow and transport equations. Special attention is given to the highly nonlinear nature of the governing flow equation. Alternative methods for describing and modeling the hydraulic functions of unsaturated porous media are also described.
"Hands-on" computer sessions will provide participants an opportunity to become familiar with the Windows-based HYDRUS-1D and HYDRUS (2D/3D) software packages. Emphasis will be on the preparation of input data for a variety of applications, including flow and transport in a vadose zone, variably-saturated flow and transport during irrigation, flow and transport to a tile drain, and two-dimensional leachate migration from a landfill through the unsaturated zone into groundwater. Calibration will be discussed and demonstrated by means of a one-dimensional inverse problem.
Software
The course introduces a new generation of Windows-based numerical models for simulating water, heat and/or contaminant transport in variably-saturated porous media. These include the HYDRUS-1D and HYDRUS (2D/3D) codes for one-, two- and three-dimensional simulations, and the Rosetta code for estimating the soil hydraulic properties (and their uncertainty) from soil texture and related data. HYDRUS-1D and HYDRUS (2D/3D) are supported by interactive graphics-based interfaces for data-preprocessing, generation of unstructured as well as structured finite element grid systems, and graphic presentation of the simulation results. Except for HYDRUS (2D/3D), all software packages are in the public domain.
Course Developers
Dr. Martinus Th. van Genuchten is a renowned soil physicist and visiting professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, COPPE/LTTC, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received a B.S. and M.S. in irrigation and drainage from the Agricultural University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in soil physics from New Mexico State University. He has published widely on variably-saturated flow and contaminant transport processes in the subsurface, analytical and numerical modeling, nonequilibrium transport, preferential flow, characterization and measurement of the unsaturated hydraulic functions, and root-water uptake.
Dr. Jirka Simunek (a course presenter) is a professor of hydrology in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA. He received an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, and a Ph.D. in Water Management from the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. His expertise is in numerical modeling of subsurface water flow and solute transport processes, equilibrium and nonequilibrium chemical transport, multicomponent major ion chemistry, field-scale spatial variability, and inverse procedures for estimating the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media.
Registration Fees
Students: INR 5,000
Others: INR 10,000
Registration Includes Course materials, Lunch, Evening Tea / snacks
Registration Excludes Boarding and Lodging Options for accommodation are available on request
For Accommodation in Bangalore and any further assistance please contact
N. Sashikumar
Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
Email: sashikumar.n@gmail.com
Mobile:+91 9845091083++
Last date to receive registration form along with DD is 20th January 2012