Transient hydraulic tomography in a fractured dolostone: Laboratory rock block experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sharmeen, Rubaiat ^a,b   Illman, Walter A ^a   Berg, Steven J ^a,c   Yeh, Tian Chyi J ^d   Park, Young Jin ^a   Sudicky, Edward A ^a   Ando, Ken ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b SRK CONSULTING   (Canada)

^c STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e OBAYASHI CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DOLOSTONES; EFFECTIVE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; FLOW-THROUGH TESTS; FRACTURE LOCATION; FRACTURE PATTERN; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOLOGIC MEDIA; GEOMETRIC MEAN; INVERSE MODELS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUMPING CONFIGURATIONS; PUMPING TEST DATA; PUMPING TESTS; ROCK BLOCK; TRANSIENT HYDRAULICS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PUMPS; TOMOGRAPHY;

FRACTURE;

DOLOSTONE; FRACTURE ZONE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUMP; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868027787     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012216     Document Type: Article

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