An Introduction to Soil Physics Including a Description of Water In Soils, a Definition of Porous Media Continuum, and Understanding The Transport Phenomena of Water, Gases and Solutes in Soils. The Course Topics Include Soil Water Properties, Capillarity, Water Retention, Soil Water Hydrostatics, Darcy Law, Hydraulic Conductivity, Conservation Equations of Saturated and Unsaturated Flows, Infiltration, Transport of Salts and Pollutants, Evapo- Transpiration and Gas Transport, Computation and Measurement Techniques.

Faculty: Civil and Environmental Engineering
|Undergraduate Studies

Pre-required courses

(14211 - Fluid Mechanics and 104228 - Partial Differential Equations/m) or (14214 - Fundamental Fluid Mechanics and 104228 - Partial Differential Equations/m) or (54203 - Principles of Chemical Engineering 1m and 104228 - Partial Differential Equations/m)


Course with no extra credit

14957


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