Flow through Heterogeneous Geologic Media

Tian-Chyi Yeh, Raziuddin Khaleel, Kenneth C. Carroll

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781107076136
• eBook ISBN: 9781316309681
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Hydrology

This textbook integrates classic principles of flow through porous media with recently developed stochastic analyses to provide new insight on subsurface hydrology. Importantly, each of the authors has extensive experience in both academia and the world of applied groundwater hydrology. The book not only presents theories but also emphasizes their underlying assumptions, limitations, and the potential pitfalls that may occur as a result of blind application of the theories as 'cookie-cutter' solutions. The book has been developed for advanced-level courses on groundwater fluid flow, hydraulics, and hydrogeology, in either civil and environmental engineering or geoscience departments. It is also a valuable reference text for researchers and professionals in civil and environmental engineering, geology, soil science, environmental science, and petroleum and mining engineering.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• 1 Fluid statics and dynamics
• 2 Darcy´s Law for Saturated Porous Media
• 3 Darcy´s Law for Unsaturated Porous Media
• 4 Stochastic Conceptualization of Heterogeneity
• 5 Governing Flow Equations for Heterogeneous Conceptual Models
• 6 Equivalent Homogeneous Media Conceptual Models
• 7 Flow toward a Well Due to Pumping (Part 1)
• 8 Flow toward a Well Due to Pumping (Part 2)
• 9 Stochastic Approaches
• Reference
• Index