Instructor:  Prof. Tad W. Patzek

Tuesdays-Thursdays: 532 Davis, 8:00-9:30 a.m. (time change)

Office Hours: Thursdays 3-5 p.m., 425 Davis

Course format: Three hours of lecture

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Mathematics 53, 54, or 230A or equivalent

Brief Course Description: Fractals, their construction and dimensions, bond and site percolation, cluster analysis, random walks, and diffusion-limited aggregation. Creeping flow of two immiscible fluids in porous media. Pore-level characterization of sediments; pore networks; invasion percolation in drainage and imbibition; description of capillary pressures and relative permeabilities in two- and three-phase flow in mixed-wet rocks. Applications in geology, geotechnical, petroleum, environmental, mechanical, chemical and bioengineering.

Sponsoring Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Required text: None (Class notes); MATLAB, Student Edition or higher