[en] The reliability of groundwater transport models depends strongly on accurate identification of hydrodispersive processes and quantification of corresponding parameters. Calibration of these models is often performed using results of field tracer experiments. However, little attention is usually paid to the influence of injection conditions and well-aquifer interactions on resulting breakthrough curves at the sampling well. The tracer input function in the aquifer is often assimilated to a Dirac impulse and the breakthrough curve is supposed to reflect only the hydrodispersive processes affecting the tracer behaviour in groundwater. Actually, flow conditions, aquifer heterogeneity and well-aquifer interactions can have a significant influence on tracer injection. Using a new mathematical approach developed to model well-aquifer interactions and injection conditions in a more physical way, numerical experiments were conducted in order to highlight the potential impact of injection conditions on the results of radially converging flow tracer tests. This analysis clearly shows that neglecting the influence of actual injection conditions can lead to: (a) errors on fitted parameters; (b) misleading identification of the active transport processes.
Disciplines :
Geological, petroleum & mining engineering
Author, co-author :
Brouyère, Serge ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur GEO3 > Hydrogéologie & Géologie de l'environnement
Dassargues, Alain ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur GEO3 > Hydrogéologie & Géologie de l'environnement
Language :
English
Title :
Reliability of transport models calibrated on field tracer experiments: breakthrough curve sensitivity to tracer injection conditions
Publication date :
2002
Event name :
ModelCARE’2002: Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling
Event organizer :
IAHS
Event place :
Prague, Czechia
Event date :
June 2002
Audience :
International
Main work title :
in Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling: A Few Steps Closer to Reality
Brouyère, S., Modelling the injection of a tracer in a well: A new mathematical and numerical approach (2000) Tracers and Modelling in Hydrogeology, pp. 25-31. , (ed. by A. Dassargues) (Proc. TraM'2000 Conf., Liege, May 2000), IAHS Publ. 262
Brouyère, S., (2001) Etude et Modélisation du Transport et du Piégeage des Solutés En Milieu Souterrain Variablement Saturé (Study and Modelling of Transport and Capturing of Solutes in Variably Saturated Media), , PhD Thesis. Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Liège, Belgium
Carabin, G., Dassargues, A., Modeling groundwater with ocean and river interaction (1999) Water Resour. Res., 35 (8), pp. 2347-2358
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