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Viscous-dependent fingering dynamics of gas invading into multi-fluids Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Shuo Yang, Hongxia Li, Si Suo, Zan Wu
To realize the transition of our society to a low-carbon future with innovative subsurface energy solutions, understanding the dynamic behavior of gas invading multi-fluid systems in underground pore space is critical. In this work, a joint approach of flow imaging and digital image processing is employed to investigate the fingering dynamics of gas invading multi-fluids in porous media. We examined
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Impact of mineral reactions and surface complexation on the transport of dissolved species in a subterranean estuary: Application of a comprehensive reactive transport modeling approach Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Stephan L. Seibert, Gudrun Massmann, Rena Meyer, Vincent E.A. Post, Janek Greskowiak
Subterranean estuaries (STE) are hotspots of biogeochemical reactions. Here, dissolved constituents in waters of terrestrial and marine origin are transformed before they discharge to the coastal oceans. The involved biogeochemical reactions are complex and non-linear, calling for the application of numerical reactive transport modeling (RTM) to improve the process understanding. The aim of this study
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Numerical modeling and simulation of microbially induced calcite precipitation on a cement surface at the pore scale Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Tao Yuan, Andrea Cherkouk, Cornelius Fischer
Accurate estimation of contaminant transport in cementitious material using numerical tools plays a key role in the risk assessments of nuclear waste disposal. At the pore scale, the increase of microbial activity, such as microbially induced calcite precipitation on cementitious material, causes changes in solid surface topography, pore network geometry, and pore water chemistry, which affect contaminant
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Enforcing global constraints for the dispersion closure problem: [formula omitted]-SIMPLE algorithm Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Ross M. Weber, Bowen Ling, Ilenia Battiato
Permeability and effective dispersion tensors are critical parameters to characterize flow and transport in porous media at the continuum scale. Homogenization theory defines a framework in which such effective properties are first computed from solving a closure problem in a repeating unit cell of the periodic microstructure and then used in a macroscopic formulation for efficient computation. The
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Robust well-balanced method with flow resistance terms for accurate wetting and drying modeling in shallow water simulations Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Lingjiang Lu, Yongcan Chen, Manjie Li, Hong Zhang, Zhaowei Liu
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Pore-scale simulation of H2-brine system relevant for underground hydrogen storage: A lattice Boltzmann investigation Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Yuhang Wang, Thejas Hulikal Chakrapani, Zhang Wen, Hadi Hajibeygi
Underground hydrogen (H) storage in saline aquifers is a viable solution for large-scale H storage. Due to its remarkably low viscosity and density, the flow of H within saline aquifers exhibits strong instability, which needs to be thoroughly investigated to ensure safe operations at the storage site. For the first time, we develop a lattice Boltzmann model tailored for pore-scale simulations of the
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Analytical model for Joule-Thomson cooling under heat exchange during CO2 storage Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Christina Chesnokov, Rouhi Farajzadeh, Kofi Ohemeng Kyei Prempeh, Siavash Kahrobaei, Jeroen Snippe, Pavel Bedrikovetsky
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A hybrid pore-network-continuum modeling framework for flow and transport in 3D digital images of porous media Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Li Zhang, Bo Guo, Chaozhong Qin, Yongqiang Xiong
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Macroscopic modeling of urban flood inundation through areal-averaged Shallow-Water-Equations Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Alok Kumar, Gourabananda Pahar
An areal-averaged form of classical Shallow-Water-Equations is developed in conjunction with Finite-Volume-Method for capturing sub-grid bed variation. The averaging mechanism treats sub-grid obstacles through depth-dependent-area-averaged porosity at the macroscopic level. This porosity assumes a binary distribution (0,1) for a resolution fine enough to treat bed-variation separately, resulting in
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Pore-scale simulations help in overcoming laboratory limitations with unconsolidated rock material: A multi-step reconstruction based on scanning electron and optical microscopy data Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Dmitry A. Kulygin, Aleksey Khlyupin, Aleksei Cherkasov, Rustem A. Sirazov, Dina Gafurova, Yan I. Gilmanov, Konstantin V. Toropov, Dmitry V. Korost, Kirill M. Gerke
This article explores the possibility to assess the flow and transport properties of loosely consolidated rock material—something that is very hard or impossible to achieve in the laboratory due to fragility of cores. We present two cases of weakly consolidated and unconsolidated rocks. We provide a solution based on pore-scale simulations and stochastic reconstructions using scanning electron (SEM)
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Influence of sedimentary structure and pore-size distribution on upscaling permeability and flow enhancement due to liquid boundary slip: A pore-scale computational study Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 ATM Shahidul Huqe Muzemder, Kuldeep Singh
Low-permeability sedimentary formations, such as tight sandstones, exhibit fluid flow and transport phenomena distinct from those in conventional porous systems due to the dominance of micro- to nanometer-sized pores and variable amounts of boundary slip. The widely used traditional no-slip boundary condition often fails to accurately describe fluid behavior in these formations. A knowledge gap exists
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Investigating snap-off behavior during spontaneous imbibition in 3D pore-throat model by pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Jiangtao Zheng, Xinbao Qi, Wenbo Gong, Yufeng Bian, Yang Ju
As a result of complex pore-throat geometry and precursor corner flow, the snap-off of the non-wetting phase occurs during the spontaneous imbibition (SI) of wetting phase. However, accurate modeling of such pore-scale flow behavior remains a big challenge, and its influencing factors remain unclear. In this study, an improved pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to analyze the snap-off
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Generation of pore-space images using improved pyramid Wasserstein generative adversarial networks Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Linqi Zhu, Branko Bijeljic, Martin J. Blunt
High-resolution three-dimensional X-ray microscopy can be used to image the pore space of materials. Machine learning algorithms can generate a statistical ensemble of representative images of arbitrary sizes for rock characterization, modeling, and analysis. However, current methods struggle to capture features at different spatial scales observed in many complex rocks which have a wide range of pore
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Pore-scale insights into relative permeability in strongly and weakly wet natural fractures: A Lattice Boltzmann Method 2D simulation study Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 F.F. Munarin, P. Gouze, F. Nepomuceno Filho
The simplified view of two-phase flow, such as oil and gas, in a fracture is often assumed to occur in a stratified behavior. However, recent studies and production practices have revealed that two-phase flow in fractures exhibits diverse flow patterns. This paper investigates the control of the fracture aperture, fluids viscosity, and wettability on two-phase flow in a 2D cross section of a 3D Berea
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Influence of inertial and centrifugal forces on rate and flow patterns in natural fracture networks Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Stephan K. Matthäi, Cuong Mai Bui, Heraji Hansika, M.S.A. Perera
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A hyperbolic–elliptic PDE model and conservative numerical method for gravity-dominated variably-saturated groundwater flow Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Mohammad Afzal Shadab, Marc Andre Hesse
Richards equation is often used to represent two-phase fluid flow in an unsaturated porous medium when one phase is much heavier and more viscous than the other. However, it cannot describe the fully saturated flow for some capillary functions without specialized treatment due to degeneracy in the capillary pressure term. Mathematically, gravity-dominated variably saturated flows are interesting because
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Clogging of toe drain drastically affects phreatic seepage in earth dams Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Shahad Al-Yaqoubi, Ali Al-Maktoumi, Yurii Obnosov, Anvar Kacimov
In aged levees, toe (blanket) drains get clogged with time due to seepage-induced suffusion and translocation of fine soil fractions from the upstream to the downstream part of the embankment. These particles deposit on the top of the drain (usually, Terzhagi's graded gravel) as a cake. Also, high hydraulic gradients in the vicinity of the drain move the fine particles into the body of the coarse filter
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Hydroclimatic scenario generation using two-stage stochastic simulation framework Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Chandramauli Awasthi, Dol Raj Chalise, Hui Wang, Solomon Tassew Erkyihun, Tirusew Asefa, A. Sankarasubramanian
Climate change poses significant challenges for decision-making processes across a range of sectors. From the water resources planning and management perspective, the interest is often in evaluating the performance of a water supply system in a future state considering the potential changes in rainfall and streamflow characteristics. With observed climate change signals, scenario-based projections
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Parameter resolution of simulated responses to periodic hydraulic tomography signals in aquifers Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Daniel Paradis, René Lefebvre, Aymen Nefzi
An accurate assessment of the hydraulic properties of aquifers is required to represent groundwater flow and solute transport. This study investigates periodic hydraulic tomography performed between wells to obtain accurate images of hydraulic properties. Tomographic experiments with different period and amplitude of sinusoidal test flow, hydraulic properties and well configurations were simulated
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New insights into the parameterization of the dry surface layer and its hydrogeochemical mechanism: An experimental study Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Fengxia Liu, Hui Qian, Guangcai Wang, Yanyan Gao, Ziwei Shi
Knowledge of the parameterization of the dry surface layer (DSL) is essential for evaluating near-surface water flow and water balance in arid and semi-arid areas. Existing studies have parameterized DSL thickness and vapor flow as functions of the soil moisture content (SMC) in the surface layer to predict soil evaporation. However, hydrochemical processes related to DSL development have been ignored
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Transient-pressure modelling in fractured porous media with a new embedded finite element approach Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Behnam V. Damirchi, Pouria Behnoudfar, Luís A.G. Bitencourt Jr., Osvaldo L. Manzoli, Daniel Dias-da-Costa
This paper presents a unified, embedded finite element formulation for simulating transient fluid flow in fractured porous media while accounting for transverse and longitudinal directions. The transverse flow arises due to pressure variations on both sides of fractures, as these typically exhibit lower permeability in the perpendicular direction. A simple coupling framework is introduced to connect
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A one-dimensional augmented Shallow Water Equations system for channels of arbitrary cross-section Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 A. Valiani, V. Caleffi
This work provides a new formulation of the one-dimensional Shallow Water Equations system for open channels and rivers with arbitrarily shaped cross sections, suitable for numerical integration when discontinuous geometry is encountered. The additional variable considered can be the bottom elevation, a reference width, a shape coefficient, or a vector containing these or other geometric parameters
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Steady-state two-phase relative permeability measurements in proppant-packed rough-walled fractures Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Panav Hulsurkar, Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Maziar Arshadi, Yanbin Gong, Mohammad Piri
Understanding multiphase flow in fractures filled with minerals and proppants is vital in various subsurface applications. Limited experimental data have led to reliance on correlations lacking physical basis. We conducted experiments to characterize relative permeability in rough-walled fractures packed with unconsolidated porous media. We tested fractures packed with water-wet 40/70 sand (silica)
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A U-Net architecture as a surrogate model combined with a geostatistical spectral algorithm for transient groundwater flow inverse problems Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Dany Lauzon
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Pore-scale simulation of the influence of grain material of artificial porous media on the motion and deposition of suspended particle Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Taijia Lu, Gengyang Zang, Yong Yang, Shilin Wang, Yanfeng Gong, Liping Chen
In this study, we investigated the effect mechanism of the grain material of artificial porous media coating quartz sand (SiO), titanium dioxide (n-TiO), zinc oxide (ZnO) and polystyrene (PS) on the motion and deposition of suspended particles. First, the relationship was deeply analysed between the DLVO potential energy and the physico-chemical properties of grain material, including the Hamaker constant
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Physics-informed neural network simulation of two-phase flow in heterogeneous and fractured porous media Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Xia Yan, Jingqi Lin, Sheng Wang, Zhao Zhang, Piyang Liu, Shuyu Sun, Jun Yao, Kai Zhang
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have received great attention as a promising paradigm for forward, inverse, and surrogate modeling of various physical processes with limited or no labeled data. However, PINNs are rarely used to predict two-phase flow in heterogeneous and fractured porous media, which is critical to lots of subsurface applications, due to the significant challenges in their
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Exploring the influence of vegetated mid-channel bar on flow and turbulence in bifurcated channels: An experimental approach Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ketan Kumar Nandi, Riddick Kakati, Subashisa Dutta, Kishanjit Kumar Khatua
The evolution of fluvial systems is greatly impacted by mid-channel bars, a typical morphodynamic process in natural rivers. Sometimes, the growth of vegetation over these bars complicates the morphological behaviour by interacting with the flow. It is therefore necessary to have a fundamental interpretation of the flow-turbulence structure around the mid-bar in presence of vegetation cover in order
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Relative permeability hysteresis and residual trapping in rough-walled fractures: An experimental investigation of the effects of flow rate and saturation history using the steady-state approach Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Mohammed Eliebid, Abdelhalim Mohamed, Maziar Arshadi, Yanbin Gong, Mohammad Piri
In this work, we use the steady-state measurement technique to characterize two-phase brine-mineral oil relative permeabilities and residual trapping in water-wet rough-walled fractures induced in Eagle Ford shale rock samples. Furthermore, we systematically probe the effects of flow rate and saturation history on these properties. The influences of capillary, gravity, and viscous forces on fracture
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Transient behavior of the freshwater-saltwater mixing zone after land reclamation in coastal aquifers Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Tianyuan Zheng, Xiaoping Yu, Shaobo Gao, Qinpeng Chang, Yunhai Fang, Xilai Zheng, Olaf Kolditz, Jian Luo
The interaction between freshwater and saltwater in the mixing zone governs regional groundwater flow and the exchange of water and salt between groundwater and the ocean. However, previous studies have overlooked the impact of land reclamation on the transient behavior of the mixing zone. This research investigated the dynamic influence of reclamation length, reclamation material properties, and recharge
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Graph theory based estimation of probable CO2 plume spreading in siliciclastic reservoirs with lithological heterogeneity Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Achyut Mishra, Hailun Ni, Seyed Ahmad Mortazavi, Ralf R. Haese
Estimating plume spreading in geological CO storage reservoirs is critical for several reasons including the assessment of pore space utilization efficiency, preferential CO migration pathways and trapping. However, plume spreading critically depends on lithological heterogeneity of the reservoir and CO injection rate. It might require numerous high fidelity full physics numerical simulations to constrain
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Time-dependent dispersion coefficients for the evolution of displacement fronts in heterogeneous porous media Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Satoshi Tajima, Marco Dentz, Jiaqi Liu, Tomochika Tokunaga
We present an approach for quantifying displacement fronts in heterogeneous porous media based on the concept of time-dependent apparent dispersion coefficients. The concept of constant asymptotic macrodispersion generally overestimates the area swept by a displacement front and leads to unrealistic upstream dispersion. We show that the large-scale front spreading can be captured by a one-dimensional
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Flood plain inundation modeling with explicit description of land surface macrostructures Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Simone Pizzileo, Giovanni Moretti, Stefano Orlandini
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A 2D shallow water flow model with 1D internal boundary condition for subgrid-scale topography Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 P. Vallés, J. Fernández-Pato, M. Morales-Hernández, I. Echeverribar, P. García-Navarro
In this work, a dynamic internal boundary condition is used as subgrid model in a two-dimensional (2D) model based on the shallow water equations in order to model narrow regions in the domain. In this way, computational savings are sought, since it is not necessary to discretize these regions with cells of reduced size. The new internal boundary condition simplifies other works where 1D–2D coupled
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Runoff generation in a semiarid environment: The role of rainstorm intra-event temporal variability and antecedent soil moisture Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Shmuel Assouline, Shai Sela, Michael Dorman, Tal Svoray
Rainfall intensity and antecedent soil moisture are key variables affecting the initiation and accumulation of runoff, and therefore, impact on the occurence flood events. We used time series of rainfall intensities characterizing rainstorms with different mean, standard deviation, and skewness to simulate runoff response of a sealed loamy soil profile under various initial soil moisture conditions
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Influence of long-term observed trends on the performance of seasonal hydroclimate forecasts Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Rajarshi Das Bhowmik, Venkatesh Budamala, A. Sankarasubramanian
Skillful forecasts of hydroclimate variables are essential for operational water management, agricultural planning, and food supply. Several studies have attempted to improve the skill of raw forecasts either by post-processing or by incorporating sea surface conditions into raw forecasts. However, to the best of our knowledge, limited to no study has investigated temporal trend, which is present in
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of dissolution patterns in porous media: Single porosity versus dual porosity media Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Elham Kashani, Ali Mohebbi, Amir Ehsan Feili Monfared, Enno T. de Vries, Amir Raoof
Understanding the influence of porous media structure, particularly dual porosity, on solvent transport and pore geometry evolution during chemical reactions is a complex and critical area of study. This research leverages the lattice Boltzmann method to investigate how the presence of aggregates in a medium affects solvent transport and pore space development, focusing on distinct dissolution regimes:
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Application of 1D model for overland flow simulations on 2D complex domains Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Yaoxin Zhang, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Ronald L. Bingner, Xiaobo Chao, Eddy Langendoen, Andrew M. O'Reilly, Dalmo A.N. Vieira
High computational demand limits the applications of two-dimensional (2D) shallow water equation models for high resolution overland flow simulations, while one-dimensional (1D) models can achieve higher computing efficiency. This study applied a 1D hydrodynamic model to surrogate 2D models for overland flow simulations on complex 2D domains. With one dimension reduced, the surrogate model simulation
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Mixing-phase model for shear-induced contractive/dilative effects in unsteady water-sediment mixture flows Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 S. Martínez-Aranda, J. Fernández-Pato, P. García-Navarro
Among the geophysical surface processes, mud and debris flows show one of the most complex and challenging behaviour for scientists and modellers. These flows consist of highly-unsteady gravity-driven movements of water-sediment mixtures with non-Newtonian rheology where the solid concentration could be about 40%–80% of the flow volume and which occur along steep and irregular terrains. Furthermore
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Subaqueous dilative slope failure (breaching): Current understanding and future prospects Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Said Alhaddad, Geert Keetels, Dick Mastbergen, Cees van Rhee, Cheng-Hsien Lee, Eduard Puig Montellà, Julien Chauchat
This article presents the current state-of-the-art understanding of underwater dilative slope failure (breaching). Experimental investigations are reviewed, providing critical insights into the underlying physics of breaching and pointing out knowledge gaps, which underscore the need for further research. Besides, field observations at several locations across the globe are outlined, highlighting the
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Retardation factor scaling for contaminant transport in fractured media Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Sida Jia, Funing Ma, Zhijie Yang, Zhichao Zhou, Hui Ling, Tianshan Lan, Weiliang Wang, Yong Tian, Hung Vo Thanh, Mohamad Reza Soltanian, Zhenxue Dai
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Effects of microtopography on patterns and dynamics of groundwater–surface water interactions Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Zheng Lu, Xiaofan Yang
Groundwater–surface water interaction is greatly affected by surface topography and agricultural activities in managed agricultural regions. Such an interaction increases the complexity of hierarchical groundwater flow systems. However, the combined effects of microtopography and agricultural activities on groundwater flow patterns remain unclear. In this study, an integrated groundwater–surface water
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In-situ 3D measurements of water films on the natural grain surface of porous rocks Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Gijs Wensink, Mehrbod Keshavarzi Shirazi Mosalman, Pascal Geurts, Ying Gao, Gaetano Garfi, Samuel Krevor, Apostolos Georgiadis, Paul F. Luckham, Maja Rücker
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Probabilistic assessment of scalar transport under hydrodynamically unstable flows in heterogeneous porous media Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Alessandra Bonazzi, Xiaoshu Zeng, Roger Ghanem, Birendra Jha, Felipe P.J. de Barros
Quantitative predictions of scalar transport in natural porous media is a nontrivial task given the presence of multi-scale spatial heterogeneity in the permeability field. Due to data scarcity, the structural map of the permeability field is subject to uncertainty and therefore, model predictions are uncertain. For such reasons, probabilistic models of flow and transport in natural porous media are
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Two-phase approach to modeling the grain-fluid flows with deposition and entrainment over rugged topography Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Hock-Kiet Wong, Yih-Chin Tai, Haruka Tsunetaka, Norifumi Hotta
We present a grain-fluid mixture for debris flows moving on a rugged (non-trivial) topography, where entrainment and deposition may take place. The model equations are derived with respect to a terrain-following coordinate system, which is constructed based on the topographic surface. The coordinates are fixed in space, and a “sub-topography” is added on the coordinate surface to account for the variation
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A percolation model of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity using three-parameter Weibull distribution Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Marzieh Zare Sourmanabad, Sarem Norouzi, Farhad Mirzaei, Brandon A. Yokeley, Hamed Ebrahimian, Behzad Ghanbarian
Accurate estimation of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity, (), is crucial for modeling water and solute transport in variably-saturated soils. In this study, a new model for the estimation of () based on percolation theory and critical path analysis is presented, in which the pore-throat size distribution is described by the three-parameter Weibull probability density function. To evaluate the performance
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The Method of Finite Averages: A rigorous upscaling methodology for heterogeneous porous media Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Kyle Pietrzyk
Rigorous upscaling techniques offer accurate and computationally-efficient strategies for modeling the behaviors of multi-physical, multiscale phenomena in geological porous media. However, such techniques often rely on a variety of methodological assumptions that prohibit their rigorous application to practical systems (e.g., systems involving heterogeneous porous media, system-scale boundary conditions
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A framework on utilizing of publicly availability stream gauges datasets and deep learning in estimating monthly basin-scale runoff in ungauged regions Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Manh-Hung Le, Hyunglok Kim, Hong Xuan Do, Peter A. Beling, Venkataraman Lakshmi
This study introduces a framework that strategically applies a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based approach for monthly runoff prediction in South Africa and Central Asia. The framework is distinct in its utilization of newly developed Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS)-derived climate dynamics variables and Global Streamflow Indices and Metadata Archives (GSIM)-derived static descriptors
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A computationally efficient modeling of flow in complex porous media by coupling multiscale digital rock physics and deep learning: Improving the tradeoff between resolution and field-of-view Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Iman Nabipour, Amir Raoof, Veerle Cnudde, Hamed Aghaei, Jafar Qajar
Digital rock physics is at the forefront of characterizing porous media, leveraging advanced tomographic imaging and numerical simulations to extract key rock properties like permeability. However, fully capturing the heterogeneity of natural rocks necessitates imaging increasingly larger sample volumes, presenting a significant challenge. Direct numerical simulations at these scales become either
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Numerical simulation of foam displacement impacted by kinetic and equilibrium surfactant adsorption Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Filipe F. de Paula, Iury Igreja, Thiago O. Quinelato, Grigori Chapiro
This study explores the effectiveness of foam in reducing gas mobility in porous media impacted by surfactant adsorption in highly heterogeneous porous media. The research focuses on assessing the influence of kinetic and equilibrium adsorption during foam displacement on reservoir sweep efficiency, considering co-injection and SAG (Surfactant Alternating Gas) injection strategies. Including the surfactant
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Analytical methodology for determining the extent of pumped freshwater lenses in recharge-limited, circular islands Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Barret L. Kurylyk, Yin-Fang Lin, S. Cristina Solórzano-Rivas, Adrian D. Werner
Island freshwater lenses are often subjected to pumping to support the freshwater needs of isolated communities. Investigations of the lens extent commonly involve the application of analytical solutions, although the effects of pumping from circular island aquifers have not been assessed in previous analytical methodologies. In this study, a new analytical solution is derived based on Green's functions
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Revealing nitrate uptake and dispersion dynamics using high-frequency sensors and two-dimensional modeling in a large river system Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Amirreza Zarnaghsh, Michelle Kelly, Amy Burgin, Admin Husic
Nitrate pollution of water bodies is a critical issue in many parts of the world because of its negative effects on aquatic ecosystem and human health. Effective management of pollution, such as the continuous or instantaneous release from point-sources, requires an understanding – with high spatial and temporal resolution – of how nitrate is dispersed and cycled within rivers. Nitrate sensing data
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Ostwald ripening of gas bubbles in porous media: Impact of pore geometry and spatial bubble distribution Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Deepak Singh, Helmer André Friis, Espen Jettestuen, Johan Olav Helland
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Surrogate model for geological CO[formula omitted] storage and its use in hierarchical MCMC history matching Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Yifu Han, François P. Hamon, Su Jiang, Louis J. Durlofsky
Deep-learning-based surrogate models show great promise for use in geological carbon storage operations. In this work we target an important application — the history matching of storage systems characterized by a high degree of (prior) geological uncertainty. Toward this goal, we extend the recently introduced recurrent R-U-Net surrogate model to treat geomodel realizations drawn from a wide range
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Leveraging deep learning with progressive growing GAN and ensemble smoother with multiple data assimilation for inverse modeling Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Michael Tetteh, Liangping Li, Arden Davis
The incorporation of hard data in geostatistical modeling is crucial for enhancing the accuracy of interpolating or stochastically estimating subsurface spatial features. The hard data at specified points in the model domain serve as a guide in optimizing the unknown parameters to follow the patterns of the hard data. Recently, a novel approach to solving hydrogeologic/reservoir modeling problems has
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Simulation of two-phase flow in 3D fractured reservoirs using a projection-based Embedded Discrete Fracture Model on Unstructured tetrahedral grids (pEDFM-U) Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Túlio de M. Cavalcante, Artur C.R. Souza, Hadi Hajibeygi, Darlan K.E. Carvalho, Paulo R.M. Lyra
The modeling of fluid flow in heterogeneous, anisotropic and fractured porous media is relevant in many applications, including hydrocarbon and groundwater extraction, dispersion of contaminants, hydrogen or carbon dioxide (CO) storage. Thus, accurate and scalable simulation of fluid flow through these formations continues to be a great challenge. The presence of fractures that are explicitly modeled
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Polynomial chaos enhanced by dynamic mode decomposition for order-reduction of dynamic models Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 G. Libero, D.M. Tartakovsky, V. Ciriello
Thanks to their low computational cost, reduced-order models (ROMs) are indispensable in ensemble-based simulations used, e.g., for uncertainty quantification, inverse modeling, and optimization. Since data used to train a ROM are typically obtained by running a high-fidelity model (HFM) multiple times, a ROM’s efficiency rests on the computational cost associated with the data generation and training
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Improving modelled streamflow using time-varying multivariate assimilation of remotely sensed soil moisture and in-situ streamflow observations Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 R Visweshwaran, RAAJ Ramsankaran, T.I. Eldho
Hydrological models are widely used to estimate and forecast streamflow for various applications. Given the inherent uncertainties in these models, there is a pressing need to enhance the current state of the modelling strategies. Historically, hydrological models showed significant improvement through soil moisture (SM) assimilation. Particularly, when SM observations are combined with streamflow
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On the existence of multiple states of low flows in catchments in southeast Australia Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Pallavi Goswami, Tim J. Peterson, Arpita Mondal, Christoph Rüdiger
This study investigates whether low flow events in a catchment exhibit a possibility of switching regimes. If this happens, it can result in a catchment experiencing a flow anomaly that is even more extreme than what was historically considered a conventional low flow event. A Hidden Markov Modeling approach was used to identify shifts in the intensity of low flow events in catchments in southeast
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Optimal strategies for assigning prior boundary settings in Hydraulic Tomography analysis Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Xiaoru Su, Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh, Kuangjia Li, Guangcai Wang, Zhaokai Wang
Hydraulic Tomography (HT) is a high-resolution method for identifying aquifer hydraulic property heterogeneity. Despite decades of development leading to a relative maturation of HT, the influence of prior boundary information on HT estimations warrants further investigation. In this study, HT methods were applied to a synthetic heterogeneous aquifer to examine the impact of prior boundary types, sizes
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Pore-scale investigation of solute dispersion behavior in porous media under a two-phase co-flow condition Adv. Water Resour. (IF 4.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Chunwei Zhang, Kai Zhang, Jiale Mo, Zijing Li, Tetsuya Suekane, Yuncong Wang, Ming Li