In a series of field experiments, we evaluate the influence of a small water pressure change on fracture aperture during a hydraulic test. An experimental borehole is instrumented at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) Underground Research Tunnel (KURT). The target fracture for testing was found from the analyses of borehole logging and hydraulic tests. A double packer system was...

The interpretation of falling-head tests in cased boreholes is discussed. These tests are commonly used to measure hydraulic conductivity of compacted clay liners and are often part of the construction quality assurance program. Three methods of interpretation are reviewed with data sets collected from real tests. Two of these methods have been the subject of past research by other authors: the...

This paper uses a multiscale statistical framework to estimate groundwater travel times and to derive conditional travel time probability densities. In the applications of interest here travel time uncertainties depend primarily on uncertainties in hydraulic conductivity. These uncertainties can be reduced if the travel times are conditioned on scattered measurements of hydraulic conductivity a...

In this study, we extend the KLME approach, a moment-equation approach based on the Karhunen–Loève decomposition (KL), developed by Zhang and Lu [An efficient, higher-order perturbation approach for flow in randomly heterogeneous porous media via Karhunen–Loève decomposition. J Comput Phys 2004;194(2):773–94] to efficiently incorporate existing direct measurements of the log hydraulic conductiv...

irrigation with distillery effluent, besides influencing crop yield, may have considerable impact on physical properties of soil because of its high salt and organic carbon contents. this experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effect of distillery effluent on hydraulic conductivity of a sandy loam alluvial soil and compare the effect of inorganic salts of potassium (k) with that of di...

In this study, we attempt to obtain higher-order solutions of the means and (co)variances of hydraulic head for saturated flow in randomly heterogeneous porous media on the basis of the combination of Karhunen–Lo eve decomposition, polynomial expansion, and perturbation methods. We first decompose the log hydraulic conductivity Y 1⁄4 lnKs as an infinite series on the basis of a set of orthogona...

Exercise 3.2d: Calculate weights on hydraulic-head and flow observations For the head observations, first calculate the total variance of measurement error for the head observations, by adding the variance for the elevation measurement and the variance for the water-level measurement. This total variance is 1.0025 m, as shown in Table 3.2. Then, calculate the weight as the inverse of this varia...

The groundwater inflow into a mine during its life and after ceasing operations is one of the most important concerns of the mining industry. This paper presents a hydrogeological assessment of the Irankuh Zn-Pb mine at 20 km south of Esfahan and 1 km northeast of Abnil in west-Central Iran. During mine excavation, the upper impervious bed of a confined aquifer was broken and water at high-pres...

This study outlines a new method for disposing of hazardous (e.g., nuclear) waste. The technique is called Abyssal Sequestration, and it involves placing the waste at extreme depths in Earth’s crust where it could achieve the geologically long period of isolation. Abyssal Sequestration involves storing the waste in hydraulic fractures driven by gravity, a process we term as gravity fracturing. ...