The Value of `Simple’ Hand Calculations in Complex Hydrogeology Problems
The Value of `Simple’ Hand Calculations in Complex Hydrogeology Problems
Presented on Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Hydrogeologists have access to increasing amounts of field data, but are also confronted with increasingly complex problems. Fortunately, there is also increasingly sophisticated computer software with which we can solve these problems. Or can we? Too often the hydrogeologist becomes lost in the complexities and fails to see the forest through the trees. This talk reviews ome simple hand calculations may guide us how to approach a problem and judge whether or not a computer model solution actually makes sense.
Hendrik Haitjema, Ph.D.
Groundwater, Bloomington, IN
Hendrik M. Haitjema, Ph.D., is the Editor-in-Chief of Groundwater. He joined Indiana University in 1984 where he served as a professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs until August 2012. He taught, among others, groundwater flow modeling and applied mathematics.
Haitjema has a specialization in groundwater hydrology. His research interests include both the development and application of mathematical models for regional groundwater flow systems, three-dimensional groundwater flow embedded in two-dimensional flow models (Dupuit-Forchheimer models), fresh and salt water interface flow, transit time distributions in watersheds, and the conjunctive modeling of surface water and groundwater flow.
