Connectivity metrics for subsurface flow and transport

P Renard, D Allard - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding the role of connectivity for the characterization of heterogeneous porous
aquifers or reservoirs is a very active and new field of research. In that framework …

Assessment and management of risk in subsurface hydrology: A review and perspective

DM Tartakovsky - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
Uncertainty plagues every effort to model subsurface processes and every decision made
on the basis of such models. Given this pervasive uncertainty, virtually all practical problems …

Connectivity, permeability, and channeling in randomly distributed and kinematically defined discrete fracture network models

J Maillot, P Davy, R Le Goc, C Darcel… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A major use of DFN models for industrial applications is to evaluate permeability and flow
structure in hardrock aquifers from geological observations of fracture networks. The …

Spatial connectivity in a highly heterogeneous aquifer: From cores to preferential flow paths

M Bianchi, C Zheng, C Wilson, GR Tick… - Water Resources …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates connectivity in a small portion of the extremely heterogeneous
aquifer at the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) site in Columbus, Mississippi. A total of …

Debates—Stochastic subsurface hydrology from theory to practice: Why stochastic modeling has not yet permeated into practitioners?

X Sanchez‐Vila… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We address modern topics of stochastic hydrogeology from their potential relevance to real
modeling efforts at the field scale. While the topics of stochastic hydrogeology and numerical …

Minimum hydraulic resistance and least resistance path in heterogeneous porous media

CB Rizzo, FPJ de Barros - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The transport dynamics of a solute plume in porous media are strictly related to the
hydrogeological properties. Despite progress in simulation techniques, quantifying transport …

Joint estimation of transmissivity and storativity in a bedrock fracture

M Castagna, MW Becker, A Bellin - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The spatial variability of transmissivity (T) and storativity (S) in a sandstone bedding plane
fracture was investigated through field and numerical hydraulic tomography experiments …

Enhanced NAPL removal and mixing with engineered injection and extraction

Y Wang, D Fernàndez‐Garcia… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aquifer remediation with in‐situ soil washing techniques and enhanced oil removal typically
involves the injection of liquid solutions into the geological formation to displace and …

An entrogram‐based approach to describe spatial heterogeneity with applications to solute transport in porous media

M Bianchi, D Pedretti - Water Resources Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The recently introduced geological entropy concept evaluates spatial order/disorder in the
structure of the hydraulic conductivity (K) field to explain and predict certain characteristics of …

Toward efficiency in heterogeneous multispecies reactive transport modeling: A particle‐tracking solution for first‐order network reactions

CV Henri, D Fernàndez‐Garcia - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling multispecies reactive transport in natural systems with strong heterogeneities and
complex biochemical reactions is a major challenge for assessing groundwater polluted …