Topological Groundwater Hydrodynamics

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  • Garrison Sposito
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Topological groundwater hydrodynamics is an emerging subdiscipline in the mechanics of ¯uids in porous media whose objective is to investigate the invariant geometric properties of subsurface ¯ow and transport processes. In this paper, the topological characteristics of groundwater ¯ows governed by the Darcy law are studied. It is demonstrated that: (i) the topological constraint of zero helicity density during ¯ow is equivalent to the Darcy law; (ii) both steady and unsteady groundwater ¯ows through aquifers whose hydraulic conductivity is an arbitrary scalar function of position and time are con®ned to surfaces on which the streamlines of the ¯ow are geodesic curves; (iii) the surfaces to which the ¯ows are con®ned either are ¯at or are tori; and (iv) chaotic streamlines are not possible for these ¯ows, implying that they are inherently poorly mixing in advective solute transport.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001