Daily Objectives #18                                                                                         Dr. Sanders
(March 14, 2002)

By the end of today’s class, you should be able to do the following:

* Explain what the "water table" is in terms of hydraulic head and in terms of saturation conditions.

* Explain what the capillary zone (tension-saturated zone) is.

* Use a flow net to tell the direction of ground water flow and identify areas of high and low gradients.

* Use a flow net to estimate velocity of flow and discharge through an aquifer.

* Draw a quantitatively accurate flow net.

* Use the FlowNetLT software (provided with your textbook) to investigate the effects of isotropy, anisotropy, and heterogeneity on flow nets.

* Using the FlowNetLT software, create a model for a flow system that someone else describes for you.

Updated March 12, 2002.