The soil is a heterogeneous and anisotropic medium. Hydraulic conductivity, an intrinsic property of natural alluvial deposits varies both deterministically and randomly in space and has different values in various directions. In the present study, the permeability of natural deposits and its influence on the seepage flow through a natural alluvial deposit is studied. The 2D Finite Difference c...

This paper explored numerical techniques to simulate the movement of an applied tracer plume in a laboratory beach subjected to tide. The MARUN model (Boufadel et al., 1999) was used. The movement of the tracer plume in the beach and the development of a transient seepage on the beach surface were modeled. By calibrating the results of the numerical model against the observed data, the laborato...

In recent years, carbon dioxide capture and its geological storage (CCS) has been recognized as one of the most effective tools to mitigate climate change with its vast potential and cost effectiveness. With this background, many countries around the world have started to study on its technical aspects as well as economic aspects. In some countries, several commercial or experimental plants are...

In order to solve the adverse effect that lining of high groundwater level channels is prone damage when subjected heavy rainfall, response law internal structural state under different rainfall conditions was studied. Based on non-seepage seepage theory, pressure (total water head) in tunnel four types analyzed and The results show most unfavorable for structure safety are frontal uniform type...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract We investigated one of the best-known and second largest karst areas in Germany (Blautopf Catchment) that offers a unique access waters of the unsaturated zone through a large cave system. As tracers for water flow and storage we measured ...

In this article, the ow of uids in porous media is studied as a free or moving boundary problem by the mixed method. In particular, a new weak formulation for the problem of seepage of uids through a porous media is discussed and analyzed mathematically and numerically. The new formulation is in a mixed form and is suitable for the use of mixed nite element methods in the numerical approximatio...

The formulation and existence theory is presented for a system modeling diffusion of a slightly compressible fluid through a partially saturated poroelastic medium. Nonlinear effects of density, saturation, porosity and permeability variations with pressure are included, and the seepage surface is determined by a variational inequality on the boundary.

A numerical model was used to investigate the effect of spatial variability in fracture permeability on liquid seepage and moisture distribution in the vicinity of a waste emplacement drift in the unsaturated zone (UZ) of Yucca Mountain. The model is based on a two-dimensional, cross-sectional, dual-permeability model of the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain and uses a stochastic approach to i...