A new method for high-resolution characterization of hydraulic conductivity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Gaisheng ^a   Butler Jr , James J ^a   Bohling, Geoffrey C ^a   Reboulet, Edward ^a   Knobbe, Steve ^a   Hyndman, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MACRODISPERSION EXPERIMENTS; MISSISSIPPI; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; UNCONSOLIDATED FORMATIONS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

PROBES;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAGNITUDE; PROBE; SHALLOW WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349770729     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008319     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Berkowitz, B., A. Cortis, M. Dentz, and H. Scher (2006), Modeling nonFickian transport in geological formations as a continuous time random walk, Rev. Geophys., 44, RG2003, doi:10.1029/2005RG000178. (Pubitemid 46044201)
2. Boggs, J. M., S. C. Young, L. M. Beard, L. W. Gelhar, K. R. Rehfeldt, and E. E. Adams (1992), Field study of dispersion in a heterogeneous aquifer: 1. Overview and site description, Water Resour. Res., 25(12), 3281-3291,doi:10. 1029/92WR01756.
3. Bohling, G. C., and J. J. Butler Jr. (2001), Lr2dinv: A finite-difference model for inverse analysis of two-dimensional linear or radial groundwater flow, Comput. Geosci., 27(10), 1147-1156, doi: 10.1016/S00983004(01)00036-X.
4. Butler, J. J., Jr. (2005), Hydrogeological methods for estimation of hydraulic conductivity, in Hydrogeophysics, Water Sci. Technol. Libr., vol.50, edited by Y. Rubin and S. Hubbard, pp. 23-58, Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
5. Butler, J. J., Jr., P. Dietrich, V. Wittig, and T. Christy (2007), Characterizing hydraulic conductivity with the direct-push permeameter, Ground Water, 45(4), 409-419, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00300.x.
6. Dagan, G. (1989), Flow and Transport in Porous Formations, 465 pp., Springer, New York.
7. Dagan, G., and S. P. Neuman (1997), Subsurface Flow and Transport: A Stochastic Approach, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, U. K.
8. Dietrich, P., J. J. Butler Jr., and K. Faiß (2008), A rapid method for hydraulic profiling in unconsolidated formations, Ground Water, 46(2), 323-328, doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00377.X. (Pubitemid 351326712)
9. Gelhar, L. W., and C. L. Axness (1983), Three-dimensional stochastic analysis of macrodispersion in aquifers, Water Resour. Res., 19(1), 161-180, doi: 10.1029AVR019i001p00161. (Pubitemid 13508378)
10. Harvey, C. F., and S. M. Gorelick (2000), Rate-limited mass transfer or macrodispersion: Which dominates plume evolution at the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) site?, Water Resour. Res., 36(3), 637-650, doi:10.1029/1999WR900247. (Pubitemid 30149751)
11. Hinsby, K., P. L. Bjerg, L. J. Andersen, B. Skov, and E. V. Clausen (1992), A mini slug test method for determination of a local hydraulic conductivity of an unconfined sandy aquifer, J. Hydrol., 136(1-4), 87-106, doi:10.1016/0022-1694(92)90006-H. (Pubitemid 23373175)
12. Liu, G., G. C. Bohling, and J. J. Butler Jr. (2008), Simulation assessment of the direct-push permeameter for characterizing vertical variations in hydraulic conductivity, Water Resour. Res., 44, W02432, doi: 10.1029/ 2007WR006078.
13. Lowry, W., N. Mason, V. Chipman, K. Kisiel, and J. Stockton (1999), In-situ permeability measurements with direct push techniques: Phase II topical report, Rep. SEASF-TR-98-207, 102 pp., Fed. Energy Technol. Cent., Dep. of Educ., Morgantown, W. Va.
14. Lunne, T., P. K. Robertson, and J. J. M. Powell (1997), Cone Penetration Testing in Geotechnical Practice, Blackie Acad. Prof., London.
15. McCall, W., D. M. Nielsen, S. Farrington, and T. C. Christy (2005), Use of direct-push technologies in environmental site characterization and ground-water monitoring, in The Practical Handbook of Environmental Site Characterization and Ground-Water Monitoring, 2nd ed., edited by D. M. Nielsen, pp. 345-472, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.
16. Sellwood, S. M., J. M. Healey, S. Birk, and J. J. Butler Jr. (2005), Directpush hydrostratigraphic profiling: Coupling electrical logging and slug tests, Ground Water, 43(1), 19-29, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005. tb02282.x.
17. Zheng, C. (2006), Accounting for aquifer heterogeneity in solute transport modeling: A case study from the macrodispersion experiment (MADE) site in Columbus, Mississippi, in Handbook of Groundwater Engineering, 2nd ed., edited by J. W. Delleur, pp. 26-1-26-18, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla.