Teaching

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M.Tech Hydraulics & Water Reso. Engg  @ IITM

1. Groundwater Engineering

2. Geophysical Exploration Methods

M.Sc Applied Geology :

1. Hydrogeology

2. Exploration Geophysics

3. Environmental Hydrogeology

4. Applied Hydrogeochemistry
 

B.E Civil Engineering :

1. Engineering Geology

 

Downloadable Books/Lectures

Thomas Wintgens, Anders Nattorp, L Elango, Shyam R. Asolekar (2015) Natural Water Treatment Systems for Safe and Sustainable Water Supply in the Indian Context: Saph Pani, IWA publication, ISBN 9781780407104, 342 p.

Elango, L. (2011) Hydraulic conductivity - Issues, Determination and Applications, Intech Open Access Publisher. ISBN 978-953-307-288-3, pp. 434.

Elango, L. (2005) Numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport, Allied Publishers Limited.

Elango, L. and Jayakumar, R. (2001) Modelling in hydrogeology, UNESCO-IHP Publication - Allied Publishers Limited.

 

Groundwater Engineering:

Introduction  - Scope - Hydrologic cycle - groundwater and geologic processes

Groundwater flow

Pumping/slug tests

 

Hydrogeology:

Introduction  - Hydrologic cycle - groundwater and geologic processes

Groundwater flow

Estimation of aquifer parameters

Groundwater abstraction - wells

Groundwater quality

Well logging - Video 1  Video 2

 

Exploration Geophysics:

Intro. to Expl Geophysics

Electrical Resistivity Method

Electrical Self Potential Method

Electrical Induced Polarisation, Electromagnetic and GPR methods

Gravity Methods

Magnetic Methods

Seismic Methods

Seismic Refraction Methods

Seismic Reflection Methods

Radioactive Methods

Well logging1

Well logging2

Well logging - Video1  Video 2

 

Invited Lectures

How to write a research proposal?

Advances in hydrogeology and related career opportunities