Flow and Transport of Fines in Dams and Embankments
Abstract
Understanding the flow of fines in porous media and fractured media is significant for industrial, environmental, geotechnical and petroleum technologies to name a few. Several models have been proposed to simulate the flow and transport of fines using single or two-phase flow approaches while other models rely on mobile and immobile transport approaches. However, to the authors' best knowledge, all the proposed modeling approaches have not been compared to each other in order to define their limitations and domain of validation. In the present study, several models describing the transport of fines in heterogeneous porous and fractured media will be presented and compared to each other. Furthermore, we will evaluate their performance on the same published experimental sets of published data. This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 and was sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA).
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013AGUFM.H43F1531G
- Keywords:
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- 1815 HYDROLOGY Erosion;
- 1873 HYDROLOGY Uncertainty assessment;
- 1847 HYDROLOGY Modeling