Rainfall infiltration exerts great effect on the stability of soil slopes. Based on the actual rainfall data, saturated-unsaturated seepage theory and the mechanical theory of unsaturated porous media, numerical simulations were conducted to examine the seepage field of saturatedunsaturated slope during rainfall infiltration in this paper. The influence of the coefficient with rainfall duration...

estimation of seepage from water channels are necessary in evaluating water productivity in agricultural sector as affected by floodwater spreading on plains and artificial recharge of groundwater. several empirical seepage equations have been developed for this purpose. previous research results in iran have shown lots of variation in the coefficients and the empirical equations change in diff...

Relief wells are used extensively to relieve excess hydrostatic pressure in pervious foundation strata overlain by impervious top strata, conditions which often exist landward of levees and downstream of dams and hydraulic structures. Placing well outlets in below-surface trenches or collector pipes helps dry up seepage areas downstream of levees and dams. Relief wells are often used in combina...

*Correspondence: Jeffrey J. Marlow and Victoria J. Orphan, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, MC 100-23, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Methane seeps are among the most productive habitats along continental margins, as anaerobic methane-oxidizing euryarchaeaota and sulfur-metabolizing deltaproteobacte...

so far, for an analysis of seepage under hydraulic structures much research has beenconducted in the form of numerical models. however, few field and laboratory workshave been performed to study the boiling phenomena for evaluating numerical models.throughout the present work, a laboratory model was built to simulate seepage and itscontrolling measures under sheet piles. the model consisted of ...

We present an experimental approach for investigating the potential for bioremediation of Ž . volatile organic compounds VOCs in fractured rock vadose zones. The experimental work was performed with rock samples and indigenous microorganisms from the site of the United States Ž . Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory INEEL , located in a basalt flow basi...

A model of unsteady filtration (seepage) in a porous medium with capillary retention is considered. It leads to a free boundary problem for a generalized porous medium equation where the location of the boundary of the water mound is determined as part of the solution. The numerical solution of the free boundary problem is shown to possess self-similar intermediate asymptotics. On the other han...

Numerical models can be valuable tools in the prediction of seepage. The results can often be misleading if proper variational analysis is not performed. Measurement of the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) or saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity information is often neglected or minimized. The modeller is therefore forced to develop a seepage model based on estimated soil prop...

Remote sensing has been a key tool for ocean slicks monitoring and new discoveries based on offshore seepage detection. In this context, this contribution has a two-fold objective. Firstly, in order to spectrally characterize hydrocarbons (HCs), we conducted VNIR-SWIR-TIR spectral measurements of petroleum samples yielded from large, off-shore oil fields sited at sedimentary basins of Brazil. S...