The quadratic and power laws are two typical formulations that can be used to extend the Darcy law to non-Darcy flows through porous media. Both laws are reformulated in the dimensionless form in this study. They are then evaluated by fitting to experimental data with specified variations in seepage velocity, which were specifically collected for a simplified ordered porous model. The results s...

We present in this paper a new inverse method for the study of the seepage from symmetrical earthen open channels. We map the half-strip from the complex potential domain onto the unit half-disk from an auxiliary ζ plane. We introduce Levi-Civitá’s function whose imaginary part vanishes on the diameter [−1, 1] of the half-disk by virtue of the boundary conditions imposed on the free lines. Then...

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...

Upper Gotvand dam is constructed on the Karun River located in the south west of Iran. In this paper, 2D and 3D models of the dam together with the foundation and abutments were constructed and several seepage analyses were carried out. Then the gypsum veins scattered throughout the foundation ground and also the seepage pattern were included in the models, hence the dissolution law of gypsum, ...

Interpreting observations of seepage into underground openings is often complicated by evaporative potentials created by the necessity to ventilate the openings. Evaporation removes liquid from the seepage face. By doing so, it reduces both the likelihood of seepage onset and the seepage flux, and thus can enhance the perceived effectiveness of the capillary barrier. We modeled liquid-release t...

Flood front is the jump interface where fluids distribute discontinuously, whose interface condition is the theoretical basis of a mathematical model of the multiphase flow in porous medium. The conventional interface condition at the jump interface is expressed as the continuous Darcy velocity and fluid pressure (named CVCM). Our study has inspected this conclusion. First, it is revealed that ...