Hydraulic tomography offers improved imaging of heterogeneity in fractured rocks

WA Illman - Groundwater, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fractured rocks have presented formidable challenges for accurately predicting
groundwater flow and contaminant transport. This is mainly due to our difficulty in mapping …

Aquifer heterogeneity characterization with oscillatory pumping: Sensitivity analysis and imaging potential

M Cardiff, T Bakhos… - Water Resources …, 2013 - scholarworks.boisestate.edu
Periodic pumping tests, in which a fluid is extracted during half a period, then reinjected,
have been used historically to estimate effective aquifer properties. In this work, we suggest …

Three‐dimensional transient hydraulic tomography in a highly heterogeneous glaciofluvial aquifer‐aquitard system

SJ Berg, WA Illman - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic tomography has been proposed as an alternative site characterization method,
however, relatively few field scale studies have been attempted. In this paper, we …

Hydraulic conductivity imaging from 3‐D transient hydraulic tomography at several pumping/observation densities

M Cardiff, W Barrash… - Water Resources Research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
3‐D Hydraulic tomography (3‐D HT) is a method for aquifer characterization whereby the 3‐
D spatial distribution of aquifer flow parameters (primarily hydraulic conductivity, K) is …

A field proof‐of‐concept of aquifer imaging using 3‐D transient hydraulic tomography with modular, temporarily‐emplaced equipment

M Cardiff, W Barrash… - Water Resources Research, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic tomography is a field scale aquifer characterization method capable of estimating
3‐D heterogeneous parameter distributions, and is directly sensitive to hydraulic …

Three-dimensional imaging of aquifer and aquitard heterogeneity via transient hydraulic tomography at a highly heterogeneous field site

Z Zhao, WA Illman - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that geostatistics-based transient hydraulic tomography (THT)
is robust for subsurface heterogeneity characterization through the joint inverse modeling of …

3‐D transient hydraulic tomography in unconfined aquifers with fast drainage response

M Cardiff, W Barrash - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate, through numerical experiments, the viability of three‐dimensional transient
hydraulic tomography (3DTHT) for identifying the spatial distribution of groundwater flow …

Improved predictions of saturated and unsaturated zone drawdowns in a heterogeneous unconfined aquifer via transient hydraulic tomography: Laboratory sandbox …

SJ Berg, WA Illman - Journal of Hydrology, 2012 - Elsevier
Interpretation of pumping tests in unconfined aquifers has largely been based on analytical
solutions that disregard aquifer heterogeneity. In this study, we investigate whether the …

A temporal sampling strategy for hydraulic tomography analysis

R Sun, TCJ Yeh, D Mao, M Jin, W Lu… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates optimal sampling times of drawdowns for the analysis of hydraulic
tomography (HT) survey. The investigation was carried out by analyzing the spatial and …

An application of hydraulic tomography to a deep coal mine: combining traditional pumping tests with water inrush incidents

D Mao, Z Liu, W Wang, S Li, Y Gao, Z Xu, C Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Water inrush incidents threaten the safety of coal mining. Understanding of hydrogeologic
parameter distributions is critical for preventing water-related hazards in coal mines. During …