Hydrogeophysical methods are presented that support the siting and monitoring of aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) systems. These methods are presented as numerical simulations in the context of a proposed ASR experiment in Kuwait, although the techniques are applicable to numerous ASR projects. Bulk geophysical properties are calculated directly from ASR flow and solute transport simulations ...

Bifunctional Au-loaded Fe3O4@C composite microspheres were controllably synthesized by coating of Au nanoparticles (NPs) on the surface of the poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDDA) functionalized Fe3O4@C microspheres. The amount of Au loading can be effectively tuned by altering the feeding amounts of solution Au NPs or further growth. The obtained Au-loaded Fe3O4@C composite microspher...

CO2 that is injected into a storage reservoir can leak in dissolved form because of 18 brine displacement from the reservoir, which is caused by large-scale groundwater motion. 19 Simulations of the reactive transport of leaking CO2aq along a conducting fracture in a clay20 rich caprock are conducted to analyze the effect of various physical and geochemical 21 processes. Whilst several modellin...

Intermediate-scale laboratory experiments on heterogeneous porous media have been increasingly used for the study of saturated and unsaturated ground water systems. While the ability to reproduce field-scale heterogeneity in these experiments has advanced, the use of visualization or image analysis methods to characterize the spatial distribution of solute concentrations has largely remained at...

A method for estimating in situ transformation rates of sorbing solutes in groundwater is presented. The method utilizes a novel data processing technique called "forced mass balance" (FMB) to remove the effects of transport processes from reactant and product concentrations measured during single-well, "push-pull" tests. The effectiveness of the FMB technique was evaluated by quantifying error...

[1] The classic Ghyben‐Herzberg estimate of the depth of the freshwater‐saltwater interface together with the Dupuit approximation is a useful tool for developing analytical solutions to many seawater intrusion problems. On the basis of these assumptions, Strack (1976) developed a single‐potential theory to calculate critical pumping rates in a coastal pumping scenario. The sharp interface assu...

Mixing is pivotal to conservative and reactive transport behaviors in porous media. Methods for investigating mixing processes include mathematical models, laboratory experiments numerical simulations. The latter have been historically limited by the extreme computational resources needed solving flow at microscopic scale within complex pore structure of a three-dimensional medium, while dealin...

Predicting and characterising groundwater flow solute transport in engineering hydrogeological applications, such as dimensioning tracer experiments, rely primarily on numerical modelling techniques. During software selection for modelling, the accuracy of results, financial costs simulation software, computational resources should be considered. This study evaluates approaches outlines advanta...

Abstract. Theoretical source models of underwater explosions are often applied in studying tsunami hazards associated with subaqueous volcanism; however, their use numerical codes based on the shallow water equations can neglect significant dispersion generated wavefield. A non-hydrostatic multilayer method is validated against a laboratory-scale experiment wave generation from instantaneous di...

We empirically test our earlier theoretical arguments about simplification of continuous-time random walk (CTRW) solute transport models, namely that without loss generality the velocity-like term, v?, may be set to mean groundwater velocity, dispersion-like D?, defined by a classical, velocity-independent dispersivity, and so-called time constant, ?, unity. also argue for small-scale heterogen...