Lecture 1: Conceptual and mathematical description of water flow and solute transport in the subsurface, variably-saturated flow, root water uptake, nonequilibrium transport; solute decay chains, initial conditions, boundary conditions;

Lecture 2:  Analytical modeling of solute transport in the subsurface, equilibrium and nonequilibrium transport models, parameter estimation.

Computer session 1: Modeling subsurface solute transport using the STANMOD code; direct and inverse applications.

Lecture 3: Review of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media; measurement, description, parameter estimation.

Computer session 2: Analyzing/estimating hydraulic properties with the RETC and Rosetta codes.

Lecture 4: Review of numerical methods for solving the variably-saturated flow and transport equations; application to one-dimensional problems; the HYDRUS-1D software package - model structure and examples.

Computer session 3: Application of HYDRUS-1D to simple one-dimensional problems.

Lecture 5:  Inverse modeling; application of HYDRUS-1D to laboratory and field experiments.

Computer session 4: Advanced one-dimensional forward and inverse problems with HYDRUS-1D.

Lecture 6: Application of numerical methods to 2D variably-saturated water flow

and solute transport; the HYDRUS-2D software package - model structure, examples; Pre-and post-processing with HYDRUS-2D using the finite element mesh generator.

Computer session 5: Application of HYDRUS-2D to simple one-dimensional problem.

Computer session 6: Application of HYDRUS-2D to simple two-dimensional problem.

Computer session 7: Application of HYDRUS-2D to complex two-dimensional problem A.

Computer session 8: Application of HYDRUS-2D to complex two-dimensional problem B.

General session: Other applications; discussion