Supported by examples, cases, illustrations and references, this book provides tools to solve practical engineering problems. It covers the fundamentals offractured rock hydraulics under a tensor approach and presents key concepts about approximate solutions. The book also discusses data analysis techniques applied to groundwater modeling and unique 3D finite difference algorithms to simulate practical problems concerning the hydraulic behavior of saturated, heterogeneous and randomly fractured rock masses without restriction to the geometry and properties of their discontinuities. INDICE: Introduction Fractured rock hydraulics Scope 1. Fundamentals 1.1 Basic concepts 1.2 Governing equations 1.3 Addenda to Chapter 1 2. Approximate solutions 2.1 Overview 2.2 Differential operators 2.3 Uniqueness of solutions 2.4 Approximate solution errors 2.5 Approximation methods 2.6 Addenda to Chapter 2 3. Data analysis 3.1 Preliminaries 3.2 Analysing geological features 3.3 Handling of hydraulic head data 3.4 Handling of flow rate data 3.5 Handling ofhydraulic conductivity data 3.6 Hydraulic transmissivity and connectivity 3.7Modelling hydrogeological systems 4. Finite differences 4.1 Preliminaries 4.2Finite difference basics 4.3 Finite differences algorithms for fractured rockmasses Subject Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-87418-2
- Editorial: CRC Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 179
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés