| Weeks | Topics |
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Introduction, general structure of groundwater systems, problem formulation and model development
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| 2 |
Derivation of governing groundwater flow equation, Darcy's law, definition of boundary conditions, example applications
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| 3 |
Analytical and numerical solutions of governing groundwater flow equations, example applications
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| 4 |
Software development dealing with groundwater flow problems, application to example problems
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| 5 |
Overview of optimization methods used in groundwater management, heuristic and non-heuristic optimization algorithms
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| 6 |
Solution of constrained optimization problems with heuristic algorithms, penalty function approach, Application for different penalty functions
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| 7 |
Integrating solution of groundwater flow equation with optimization algorithms, response matrix approach, embedding approach
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| 8 |
Solution of groundwater supply management models, solution of obtaining safe yield problem, solution of minimum cost pumping problem
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| 9 |
Software development and application to example problems
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| 10 |
Solution of parameter estimation problems with inverse modeling, solutions for ill-posed inverse problems
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| 11 |
Parameter structure identification, Voronoi tesselation, fuzzy c-means clustering approach, integration with optimization algorithms
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| 12 |
Model uncertainties, determination of optimum parameter structure, solution with sensitivity equations method
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| 13 |
Integration of inverse models with optimization algorithms
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| 14 |
Presentation of term projects
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