An Overlook to New Research Ideas in Groundwater Modelling
Abstract
Groundwater modeling has reached a level of maturity over the years. In most cases, when a topic becomes routine in all studies, it is difficult to incorporate new paradigms or to explore new frontiers. Yet, research in groundwater modelling seems to be in very good shape. Incorporating complexity into models have opened new lines, unexplored so far, that make this subtopic of groundwater an exciting endeavor to exciting research. Complexity is present at all scales, from micron images to very large regional aquifers, always with complicated geometries; it is intrinsically 3D; it involves different phases and fluids; it includes solutes, colloids, as well as homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions. But excitement comes when old concepts, such as upscaling, delineation of facies, flow in fractures, connectivity, non-Fickian transport, … are reinvented.
In this presentation, I will cover recent papers published in Water Resources Research during the last year, altogether providing an overlook of new topics, new ideas and new ways to solve or reinterpret old ideas in groundwater modeling.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.H42F..03S
- Keywords:
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- 1824 Geomorphology: general;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 1829 Groundwater hydrology;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 1843 Land/atmosphere interactions;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 1899 General or miscellaneous;
- HYDROLOGY