Hydraulic tomography offers improved imaging of heterogeneity in fractured rocks

WA Illman - Groundwater, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fractured rocks have presented formidable challenges for accurately predicting
groundwater flow and contaminant transport. This is mainly due to our difficulty in map** …

Transition probability‐based stochastic geological modeling using airborne geophysical data and borehole data

X He, J Koch, TO Sonnenborg… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Geological heterogeneity is a very important factor to consider when develo** geological
models for hydrological purposes. Using statistically based stochastic geological …

Three-dimensional imaging of aquifer and aquitard heterogeneity via transient hydraulic tomography at a highly heterogeneous field site

Z Zhao, WA Illman - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that geostatistics-based transient hydraulic tomography (THT)
is robust for subsurface heterogeneity characterization through the joint inverse modeling of …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments, challenges, and future research directions in tomographic characterization of fractured aquifers

LM Ringel, WA Illman, P Bayer - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
This work reviews various studies of hydraulic and pneumatic tomography for estimation of
flow properties of fractured geologic media with hydraulic and pneumatic tomography. The …

Numerical modeling of site-scale groundwater flow with stochastic parameterized hydraulic conductivity fields for geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste in …

J Zhao, Z Zhou, J Wang, R Ji, M Zhang, J Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep geological disposal is internationally accepted as a feasible and safe approach for
high-level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal. To evaluate hydrogeological conditions in …

Comparison of hydraulic tomography with traditional methods at a highly heterogeneous site

SJ Berg, WA Illman - Groundwater, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past several decades, different groundwater modeling approaches of various
complexities and data use have been developed. A recently developed approach for …

Tracking fluid flow in shallow crustal fault zones: 1. Insights from single‐hole permeability estimates

B Brixel, M Klepikova, MR Jalali, Q Lei… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
New in situ measurements to constrain the range, distribution, and spatial (meter‐scale)
variations of permeability in shallow crustal fault zones are reported based on systematic …

A hybrid inverse method for hydraulic tomography in fractured and karstic media

X Wang, A Jardani, H Jourde - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
We apply a stochastic Newton (SN) approach to solve a high-dimensional hydraulic inverse
problem in highly heterogeneous geological media. By recognizing the connection between …

Integration of soft data into geostatistical simulation of categorical variables

SF Carle, GE Fogg - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Uncertain or indirect “soft” data, such as geologic interpretation, driller's logs, geophysical
logs or imaging, offer potential constraints or “soft conditioning” to stochastic models of …

Characterization of the highly fractured zone at the Grimsel Test Site based on hydraulic tomography

LM Ringel, M Jalali, P Bayer - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
In this study, we infer the structural and hydraulic properties of the highly fractured zone at
the Grimsel Test Site in Switzerland using a stochastic inversion method. The fractured rock …