Hydraulic conductivity measurment for subsurface drainage system

A geostatistical approach to optimize the determination of saturated hydraulic conductivity for large-scale subsurface drainage design in Egypt

Measurements of saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) in the field are costly, time-consuming, and relatively cumbersome, chiefly as hydraulic conductivity exhibits a large spatial variability, so that it becomes difficult to find accurate representative values to correctly predict soil-water flow and design irrigation and drainage systems. Ks was measured in seven different soils in Egypt to e...

Determination of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity by internal drainage assuming a uniform soil water profile

Direct Method of Hydraulic Conductivity Structure Identification for Subsurface Transport Modeling

Solute transport in aquifers is strongly influenced by the spatial distribution of subsurface hydraulic conductivity (K), while limited drilling typically results in lack of data characterizing both the K and the in situ fluid-flow boundary conditions (BC). To characterize such environments, this paper presents an efficient direct inverse method to simultaneously identify an aquifer’s K pattern...

Effective Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity

Steady-state and transient one-dimensional unsaturated flow in vertically stratified porous media are examined. Saturated hydraulic conductivity and the alpha parameter of the exponential hydraulic conductivity function were assumed to vary from soil layer to soil layer. The use of effective unsaturated hydraulic conductivity to compute matric potential in the soil profile is demonstrated. Resu...

Fractional Laplace Model for Hydraulic Conductivity

Based on an examination of K data from four different sites, a new stochastic fractal model, fractional Laplace motion, is proposed. This model is based on the assumption of spatially stationary ln(K) increments governed by the Laplace PDF, with the increments named fractional Laplace noise. Similar behavior has been reported for other increment processes (often called fluctuations) in the fiel...

Drainage of a horizontal Boussinesq aquifer with a power law hydraulic conductivity profile

[1] Solutions to the Boussinesq equation describing drainage into a fully penetrating channel have been used for aquifer characterization. Two analytical solutions exist for earlyand late-time drainage from a saturated, homogeneous, and horizontal aquifer following instantaneous drawdown. The solutions for discharge Q can be expressed as dQ/dt = aQ, where a is constant and b takes on the value ...