BACKGROUND Most groundwater conservation and management efforts focus on protecting groundwater for drinking water and for other human uses with little understanding or focus on the ecosystems that depend on groundwater. However, groundwater plays an integral role in sustaining certain types of aquatic, terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and their associated landscapes. Our aim was to illumina...

Despite the intensive studies and advances have been made, penetration of geothermal heat exchangers (GHEs) ground coupled pump (GCHP) systems has constrained due to high-upfront capital cost. On other hand, recent research revealed enormous influence that complex geologic hydraulic on GCHP efficiency, especially impact groundwater. Without this knowledge, their design operation may lead lower ...

Background & Aims of the Study: Groundwater resources are a crucial component of the ecosystem. Management and cleanup of contamination from groundwater resources requires a long term strategy and a huge amount of investments. Artificial neural networks (ANN) and Geographic Information System (GIS) can be useful in determining management strategies. To protect these valuable resourc...

Four quasi-axisymmetric compact stellarator plasma and coil configurations are analyzed for their potential as reactors. A 0-D (volume-average) approach for optimizing the main reactor parameters allows study of the relationship between global parameters and the compatibility of different constraints for a given power output including plasma-coil spacing, coil-coil spacing, maximum field and co...

In this paper, we have proposed the implementation of Groundwater Possibility Retrieval System to detect the groundwater possibility using the burgeoning technique of Biogeography Based Optimization and Case based reasoning retrieval. In the case base used in this study, Geology, Land form, Soil, Land use, Slope and Lineament play a decisive role in determining ground water possibilities. These...