Groundwater Flow and Quality Modelling

'This book can be advised not only to those who are interested in groundwater flow and water quality but also to all who deal with the modelling of the air-soil interface, e.g. climate modelling, and the problems of the heterogeneity of media.' R. Romanowicz, Hydrological Sciences Journal, No. 34 (4), August 1989

• I. Principles, Basic Equations and Analytical Solutions.- Review of stochastic theory of transport in groundwater flow.- On the identification of the parameters of groundwater mass transport.- Heat and mass transfer in unsaturated porous media with application to thermal energy storage.- Basin-scale transport of dissolved species in groundwater.- Variable density fluid flow in the brackish transition zone between fresh and saline groundwater.- Stationary principles for flow and transport in aquifers.- II. Modelling Flow and Transport in Porous-Like Media.- An overwiew of groundwater modelling.- Incorporating assurance into groundwater quality management models.- The eigenvalues approach for solving linear groundwater flow problems.- New method for diffusive transport.- Comparison of fast equation solvers for groundwater flow problems.- Modelling flow and transport through porous media in vector computers.- Eulerian-Lagrangian method for solving transport in aquifers.- Hydrodynamic dispersion in model porous media.- The random walk method in pollutant transport simulation.- Modeling of solute transport with the random walk method.- III. Modelling Flow and Transport in Fractured Media.- Modelling of flow through fractured rocks: geostatistical generation of fractures networks. Stress-flow relationship in fractures.- Combined seismic and hydraulic method of modeling flow in fractured low permeability rocks.- Stochastic continuum representation of fractured rock permeability as an alternative to the REV and fracture network concepts.- Flow in three-dimensional fracture networks using a discrete approach.- MINC: an approach for analyzing transport in strongly heterogeneous systems.- A stochastic particle transport model based on directional statistics of flow through fracture networks.- IV. Consideration of Fluid-Solid Phase Interactions and Heterogeneities in Modelling.- Advances in modelling water-rock interaction in aquifers.- Parameters for modelling the transport of cadmium as influenced by the chemical properties of groundwater and aquifer material.- Micro-scale modelling in the study of plume evolution in heterogeneous media.- Modelling the increasing dispersivity with FE transport models using the multilayer concept.- Random-walk method to simulate pollutant transport in alluvial aquifers or fractured rocks.- V. Multiphase Flow and Transport Modelling.- Advances in modeling of water in the unsaturated zone.- FLuid-mechanical aspects of the migration of chemicals in fractured media.- About the numerical analysis of dynamics in multi-component-continua.- VI. Aquifer Parameter Identification by Models.- State-of-the-art of the inverse problem applied to the flow and solute transport equations.- Estimation of spatial covariance structures with application to hydrological, hydro-chemical and isotopic data from aquifers: state-of-the-art and adjoint state maximum likelihood cross-validation methods.- Bayesian identification of steady-state (anisotropic) groundwater flow models.- VII. Data Gathering and Utilization of Models.- Present limitations and perspectives on modelling pollution problems in aquifers.- Advances in the assessment of data worth for engineering decision analysis in groundwater contamination problems.- A comparative analysis of mathematical mass transport codes for groundwater pollution studies.- New approaches and applications in subsurface flow modeling: 3-D finite element analysis of dewatering for an electro-nuclear plant.- Large scale 3-D groundwater flow modeling in highly heterogeneous geologic medium.- Gatheringof data for modelling.- Present status of coastal aquifer modelling: short review.- Conclusions.- Transport modeling.- Solution methods in groundwater flow and transport.- Transport processes in groundwater: chemical and biological aspects.- Application of models.- Author Index.- List of Participants.