Flow through Heterogeneous Geologic Media

This book integrates principles of flow through porous media with stochastic analyses, for advanced-level students, researchers and professionals in hydrogeology and hydraulics.

Tian-Chyi Yeh (Author), Raziuddin Khaleel (Author), Kenneth C. Carroll (Author)

9781107076136, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 July 2015

351 pages, 166 b/w illus. 144 colour illus. 21 tables
26.2 x 18.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.94 kg

'The text overall is well-organized, and the content is well-presented for a short, specialized textbook, with organized prose that makes liberal use of section headings and typesetting to highlight key concepts. Color line-drawings, plots, and a few pictures add to the appeal of the text as well, visually conveying difficult concepts such as spatial correlation and cross-correlation fields. Each chapter is nicely summarized through a key list of take-home points, and ends with a short set of exercises that test conceptual and quantitative understanding … The content of the book assumes only a basic background in fluid mechanics or hydrogeology, and thus can serve as a relatively self-contained reference on pumping-test models … Chapter 9, in particular, sets this book apart from classical pumping-test analyses through its presentation of the stochastic modeling approach and discussion of hydraulic tomography.' Michael Cardiff, Groundwater

This textbook integrates classic principles of flow through porous media with recently developed stochastic analyses to provide new insight on subsurface hydrology. Importantly, each of the authors has extensive experience in both academia and the world of applied groundwater hydrology. The book not only presents theories but also emphasizes their underlying assumptions, limitations, and the potential pitfalls that may occur as a result of blind application of the theories as 'cookie-cutter' solutions. The book has been developed for advanced-level courses on groundwater fluid flow, hydraulics, and hydrogeology, in either civil and environmental engineering or geoscience departments. It is also a valuable reference text for researchers and professionals in civil and environmental engineering, geology, soil science, environmental science, and petroleum and mining engineering.

1. Fluid statics and dynamics
2. Darcy's law for saturated porous media
3. Darcy's law for saturated unporous media
4. Stochastic conceptualization of heterogeneity
5. Governing equations for flow through heterogeneous conceptual models
6. Equivalent homogeneous media conceptual models
7. Flow toward a well due to pumping, part 1
8. Flow toward a well due to pumping, part 2
9. Stochastic approaches.

Subject Areas: Pollution & threats to the environment [RNP], Conservation of the environment [RNK], The environment [RN], Geography [RG], Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB], Dynamics & statics [PHDT], Fluid mechanics [PHDF]