Modeling density-driven flow and solute transport in heterogeneous reservoirs with micro/macro fractures

AR Khoei, SM Mousavi, N Hosseini - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a numerical model is presented to simulate the density-driven flow in
heterogeneous porous media with micro-and macro-fractures. The micro-fractures (like …

Laboratory and numerical investigation of saline intrusion in fractured coastal aquifers

G Etsias, GA Hamill, D Campbell, R Straney… - Advances in Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Laboratory scale experiments and numerical modelling were employed in this study to
investigate saltwater intrusion in fractured aquifers. Saline intrusion was initiated in one …

Geochemical tracing and hydrogeochemical modelling of water–rock interactions during salinization of alluvial groundwater (Upper Rhine Valley, France)

Y Lucas, AD Schmitt, F Chabaux, A Clément, B Fritz… - Applied …, 2010 - Elsevier
In the southern Upper Rhine Valley, groundwater has undergone intensive saline pollution
caused by the infiltration of mining brines, a consequence of potash extraction carried out …

Automated image analysis for experimental investigations of salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers

G Robinson, GA Hamill, AA Ahmed - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel methodology has been developed to quantify important salt water intrusion
parameters in a sandbox experiment using image analysis. Existing methods found in the …

Analyzing natural convection in porous enclosure with polynomial chaos expansions: Effect of thermal dispersion, anisotropic permeability and heterogeneity

N Fajraoui, M Fahs, A Younes, B Sudret - International Journal of Heat and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, global sensitivity analysis (GSA) and uncertainty quantification (UQ) have been
applied to the problem of natural convection (NC) in a porous square cavity. This problem is …

Optimizing laboratory investigations of saline intrusion by incorporating machine learning techniques

G Etsias, GA Hamill, EM Benner, JF Águila… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Deriving saltwater concentrations from the light intensity values of dyed saline solutions is a
long-established image processing practice in laboratory scale investigations of saline …

[HTML][HTML] Laboratory and numerical study of saltwater upconing in fractured coastal aquifers

G Etsias, GA Hamill, C Thomson, S Kennerley… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the saltwater upconing mechanism in fractured coastal aquifers.
Head-induced saline intrusion was initiated into three narrow sandbox aquifers containing …

Image analysis method for the measurement of water saturation in a two-dimensional experimental flow tank

B Belfort, S Weill, F Lehmann - Journal of hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
A novel, non-invasive imaging technique is proposed that determines 2D maps of water
content in unsaturated porous media. This method directly relates digitally measured …

Impact of low‐temperature electrical resistance heating on subsurface flow and transport

MM Krol, BE Sleep, RL Johnson - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of subboiling electrical resistance heating (ERH) on subsurface flow and
transport were examined in a series of two‐dimensional tank experiments, with …

Laboratory investigation of water extraction effects on saltwater wedge displacement

S Noorabadi, AH Nazemi, AA Sadraddini… - Global Journal of …, 2017 - gjesm.net
There is a close connection between saltwater intrusion into aquifers and groundwater
extraction. Freshwater extraction in coastal aquifers is one of the most important reasons for …