A field evidence model: how to predict transport in heterogeneous aquifers at low investigation level

Aquifer heterogeneity in combination with data scarcity is a major challenge for reliable solute transport prediction. Velocity fluctuations cause non-regular plume shapes with potentially long-tailing and/or fast-travelling mass fractions. High monitoring cost and a shortage of simple concepts have...

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Published in:Hydrology and earth system sciences 2021-01, Vol.25 (1), p.1-15
Main Authors: Zech, Alraune, Dietrich, Peter, Attinger, Sabine, Teutsch, Georg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advection
Analysis
Aquifers
Calibration
Complexity
Contamination
Flow velocity
Geology
Geostatistics
Groundwater
Heterogeneity
Hydraulic conductivity
Hydraulics
Hydrogeology
Hydrology
Inclusions
Investigations
Methods
Modelling
Modular structures
Monitoring
Partial differential equations
Plumes
Pumping tests
Sediments
Solute transport
Solutes
Statistical methods
Stochasticity
Structural hierarchy
Substructures
Tracers
Transport
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Summary:Aquifer heterogeneity in combination with data scarcity is a major challenge for reliable solute transport prediction. Velocity fluctuations cause non-regular plume shapes with potentially long-tailing and/or fast-travelling mass fractions. High monitoring cost and a shortage of simple concepts have limited the incorporation of heterogeneity into many field transport models up to now.
ISSN:1607-7938
1027-5606
1607-7938
DOI:10.5194/hess-25-1-2021