[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 …

Heat tracer test in an alluvial aquifer: Field experiment and inverse modelling

M Klepikova, S Wildemeersch, T Hermans, P Jamin… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Using heat as an active tracer for aquifer characterization is a topic of increasing interest. In
this study, we investigate the potential of using heat tracer tests for characterization of a …

Tomographic reservoir imaging with DNA-labeled silica nanotracers: the first field validation

XZ Kong, CA Deuber, A Kittilä… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
This study presents the first field validation of using DNA-labeled silica nanoparticles as
tracers to image subsurface reservoirs by travel time based tomography. During a field …

Field comparison of DNA‐labeled nanoparticle and solute tracer transport in a fractured crystalline rock

A Kittilä, MR Jalali, KF Evans… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Field tracer experiments were conducted to examine tracer transport properties in a fracture‐
dominated crystalline rock mass at the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland. In the experiments …

A short‐term pumping strategy for hydraulic tomography based on the successive linear estimator

X Hou, R Hu, TCJ Yeh, Y Li, J Qi… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, the random finite element method, a finite element method with random field
generation techniques, was applied to investigate the cross correlations between the …

Synthetic fracture network characterization with transdimensional inversion

M Somogyvári, M Jalali… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fracture network geometry is crucial for transport in hard rock aquifers, but it can only be
approximated in models. While fracture orientation, spacing, and intensity can be obtained …

Thermal attenuation and lag time in fractured rock: Theory and field measurements from joint heat and solute tracer tests

J de La Bernardie, O Bour, T Le Borgne… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The modeling and prediction of heat transfer in fractured media is particularly challenging as
hydraulic and transport properties depend on a multiscale structure that is difficult to resolve …

On the limitations and implications of modeling heat transport in porous aquifers by assuming local thermal equilibrium

MA Gossler, P Bayer, GC Rau… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Heat transport in natural porous media, such as aquifers or streambeds, is generally
modeled assuming local thermal equilibrium (LTE) between the fluid and solid phases. Yet …

Investigation of hydraulic properties in fractured aquifers using cross-well travel-time based thermal tracer tomography: Numerical and field experiments

Q Liu, R Hu, L Hu, Y Xing, P Qiu, H Yang, S Fischer… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydraulic properties are well known to be essential in controlling fluid flow, solute migration,
and heat transport in fractured subsurface. However, accurate characterization of hydraulic …

New criteria to estimate local thermal nonequilibrium conditions for heat transport in porous aquifers

W Shi, Q Wang, M Klepikova… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A fundamental assumption in numerous studies of heat transfer in porous media is local
thermal equilibrium (LTE), which assumes that the temperature of the porous media at the …