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Modelling doublets and double porosity

Modelling doublets and double porosity
Modelling doublets and double porosity
A simple model has been developed as a scoping tool for transport between an injection well
and an abstraction well pumping at the same rate (i.e. a doublet) in a fractured porous rock. This model
is aimed primarily at the planning and preliminary interpretation of tracer tests and trial heat exchange
using thermal doublets in the Chalk aquifer. The model is essentially a particular case of transport along
multiple flow paths and relies on the invariance of double-porosity transport with respect to velocity
variations along a flow path. Hypothetical simulations demonstrate that solute tracer tests need to be
supplemented by information on fracture porosity in order to be able to predict thermal breakthrough.
1470-9236
259-268
Barker, J.A.
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Barker, J.A.
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Barker, J.A. (2010) Modelling doublets and double porosity. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 43, 259-268. (doi:10.1144/1470-9236/08-095).

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Abstract

A simple model has been developed as a scoping tool for transport between an injection well
and an abstraction well pumping at the same rate (i.e. a doublet) in a fractured porous rock. This model
is aimed primarily at the planning and preliminary interpretation of tracer tests and trial heat exchange
using thermal doublets in the Chalk aquifer. The model is essentially a particular case of transport along
multiple flow paths and relies on the invariance of double-porosity transport with respect to velocity
variations along a flow path. Hypothetical simulations demonstrate that solute tracer tests need to be
supplemented by information on fracture porosity in order to be able to predict thermal breakthrough.

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Published date: March 2010
Organisations: Civil Maritime & Env. Eng & Sci Unit

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Local EPrints ID: 185449
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/185449
ISSN: 1470-9236
PURE UUID: 6c272b4a-0852-4486-ba62-6c6f220ddfd7

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Date deposited: 11 May 2011 10:59
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 03:14

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