Book Companion
Groundwater Science
Edition 3
Welcome to the Companion Site for Groundwater Science, 3rd edition by Charles R. Fitts.
Welcome to the Companion Site for Groundwater Science, 3rd edition by Charles R. Fitts.
About the book
Groundwater Science, Third Edition is a leading textbook for students, instructors, and professionals in geoscience, environmental science, and civil engineering. It is well-organized, well-illustrated, and clearly written, as reviews testify. It contains worked examples within the text, homework problems at the end of each chapter, a companion website with videos, reports, free software tools for slug test analysis, pumping test analysis, heat flow analysis, and aquifer modeling (AnAqSim). The 3rd edition adds full color figures throughout, new color photographs, updated references and new current topics, and a much more powerful educational version of the groundwater modeling software AnAqSim.
https://educate.elsevier.com/book/details/9780128114551
Resources
Downloadable content
GS 3rd edition problem data files
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The accessibility metadata for this title is unknown or has not been provided to Elsevier by the original publisher.Meet the Author
Charles R. Fitts is a professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine. He has a doctorate in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota and is the author of groundwater modeling software including TWODAN, SOLUTRANS, and ANAQSIM (analytic aquifer simulator).
Chapter 3
Video animation showing the geometry of the fresh water lens under the outer part of Cape Cod:
(courtesy of Dr. Charlie McLane, McLane Environmental, LLC)
Video of a numerical model of a cross section through the coastal dune aquifer near Amsterdam, Netherlands. The simulation shows transient variable density flow and the fresh/salt interface responding to pumping of shallow wells:
(courtesy of Dr. Theo Olsthoorn, Delft University of Technology). From the presentation: Olsthoorn, T.N. (2010) Upconing and related downstream long-term salinization and head phenomena in the Amsterdam Water Supply dunes. Proceedings of SWIM21, 21st Salt Water Intrusion Meeting. (Azores, Portugal, June 21-26 2010. p199.)
Chapter 4
Split spoon sampling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo64QIE4hr4
Mud rotary drilling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ6J1FHwhlU
Jetting a hole, installing a shallow well point in sand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIhaPlEjTP8
Air rotary drilling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPV3_PXvQnc
Direct-push probe advancing casing through sand with percussion hammer:
Thin-walled tube (Shelby tube) sampling:
Hollow-stem auger drilling, then remove plug bit, then drive a split-spoon sample (standard penetration test, SPT):
Animation of seismic refraction:
Ranney horizontal collector well:
Video inside a wound stainless well screen:
Video inside a stamped louvered steel well screen of a producing gas well. Shows gas seeping into well:
Borehole video that spirals up or down the hole showing borehole walls. About 1 min in, it shows a fracture in the fine-grained sedimentary rock, and flow from the borehole into the fracture carrying fine sediment:
Chapter 5
Iceland basalt springs:
Periodic spring near Afton, WY:
Springs causing boiling, soft, fine sand in a creek bed, Wisconsin:
Video from one spot one a stream at low flow (baseflow) conditions and during storm runoff:
Permafrost exposed in a time-lapse film of coastal erosion in Northern Alaska. Coastal erosion is now widespread with less ice cover and rising sea level:
Chapter 6
AnAqSimEDU software (analytic aquifer simulator, educational version), available at this URL:
http://www.fittsgeosolutions.com/groundwater-science-textbook/
AnAqSimEDU model input files for models discussed in this chapter:
Uniform recharge with circular boundary condition:
Uniform recharge with ellipse boundary condition:
Uniform recharge with polygon boundary condition:
Uniform recharge with ellipse boundary condition, example 7.3:
Capture zone with a well in uniform flow, as in Fig 7.12:
Three wells plus image wells for a linear constant head boundary, as in Fig 7.18:
Three wells plus image wells for a circular constant head boundary, as in Fig 7.23:
Isotropic flow net as shown in Figure 7.27:
Anisotropic flow net as shown in Figure 7.30:
Chapter 7
Liquefaction, cracking and jetting of water from deeper liquefied layers, during March 2011 Japan Earthquake:
Landslides, including ones caused by increased pore water pressure as reservoirs fill (Three Gorges, Grand Coolee):
Slope failure in sensitive clay right at the coast in Port Chibatao, Brazil 2010. Started by excavation at toe of slope:
The rapid intentional drawdown of the reservoir behind Condit dam after explosives open a hole through the dam. Rapid drop in the water level in the reservoir started many landslides in saturated weak muds, which retained high pore pressures, but lost pressure of reservoir water on the toe of slopes (segment begins about 1.5 minutes into the video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4LxMHmw3Z-U
Chapter 8
Spreadsheets for analyzing slug tests and pumping tests:
Chapter 9
AnAqSimEDU software (analytic aquifer simulator, educational version), available at this URL:
http://www.fittsgeosolutions.com/groundwater-science-textbook/
Animations and visualizations of several 3D groundwater models, showing capture zones, velocities, pathlines in heterogeneous aquifers, and fresh/salt interface migration:
Walter and Leblanc (2007) USGS report on the finite difference flow models discussed in section 9.2.3 : WalterLeBlanc_USGSsir2007-5257.pdf
Problem 11 USGS Report on MODFLOW evapotranspiration module: USGS-OFR-00-466.pdf
Chapter 11
Video of simulation of advection and dispersion through a heterogeneous media. Figure 11.35 is a still shot of the end of this simulation:
(courtesy of Dr. Igor Jankovic, University at Buffalo). The simulation is described in this paper: Jankovic, I., A.Fiori, and G. Dagan. 2003. Flow and transport in highly heterogeneous formations: 3. Numerical simulations and comparison with theoretical results. Water Resources Research, 39(9), 1270, doi:10.1029/2002WR001721.
Time-lapse video of solute transport tank experiment in sand with clay lenses and diffusion-limited transport (discussed in section 11.7.1):
(courtesy of Dr. Tom Sale and Lee Ann Donor, Colorado State University).
Chapter 12
Spreadsheets for analyzing one-dimensional heat flow in groundwater, available at this URL:
http://www.fittsgeosolutions.com/groundwater-science-textbook/
Grand geyser erupting, Yellowstone National Park:
Old Faithful geyser erupting, Yellowstone National Park:
Strokkur Geysir, Iceland erupting:
Sea floor hydrothermal vents:
Color map of showing the current and future planned geothermal electric generating capacities in the US:
(National Renewable Energy Lab, 2009)
Color map showing the locations of identified natural hydrothermal sites and the distribution of favorable conditions for future EGS development:
geothermal_resource2009-final.jpg
(National Renewable Energy Lab, 2010)
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