[ Order This Book ] More Info: Summary Table of Contents A Mathematical Primer on Groundwater Flow : An Introduction to the Mathematical and Physical Concepts of Saturated Flow in the Subsurface Author: Hermance, John F. Cover: Soft cover List Price: $31.33 Published by Prentice Hall Date Published: 07/1998 ISBN: 0138964998 Table of Contents I. FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONS OF GROUNDWATER FLOW. 1. Hydrologic Nature of the Subsurface. 2. Darcy's Law and Three Dimensional Flow. 3. Taylor's Series, Directional Derivatives and Hydraulic Gradients. 4. Conservation of Fluid Flow: Application to One Dimension. 5. Fundamental Relations for Groundwater Flow in Three Dimensions. II. STEADY-STATE FLOW. 6. Two Dimensional Steady-State Flow. 7. Refraction of Flux. 8. Steady-State Flow in Unconfined Aquifers. 9. Natural Steady-State Recharge and Discharge Systems in the Vertical Plane. 10. Steady-State Flow to a Well. III. TRANSIENT FLOW. 11. Introduction to Transient Flow. 12. Transient 1-D Flow in a Confined Layer: Periodic and Aperiodic Solutions. 13. Transient 1-D Flow: Superposition of Elementary Response Functions. 14. Transient Well Discharge from a Confined Aquifer. 15. Selected Topics in Transient Flow. References and Recommended Reading. Index.