Instructors:  Prof. Tad W. Patzek and Dr. Dmitriy B. Silin

Spring Semester, Tuesdays-Thursdays: Lecture, 458 Evans, 8-9:30 a.m. Mondays: Computer Lab, 349 Davis, 1-2 p.m., 

Course format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of computer lab per week.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Mathematics 53, 54, or 230A or equivalent. MinlE251 or equivalent is strongly recommended for physical background.

Brief Course Description: Mixture of mathematical theory and hands-on development of numerical skills. MATLAB is used as the computing environment for all coursework. Differential operators and GGO theorem; continuum transport equations; basics of volume averaging; dimensional and inspectional analysis; self-similarity and scaling; semi-analytic models of contaminant transport and data inversion; numerical approximations of boundary-value problems for the Convection-Dispersion-Adsorption equation.

Sponsoring Department:  Civil and Environmental Engineering

Required text:

1.     T. W. Patzek and D. B. Silin, Mathematical and Numerical Methods in Earth Sciences (class notes)

2.   MATLAB, Student Edition, if you have no access to MATLAB