Review of Laboratory Scale Models of Karst Aquifers: Approaches, Similitude, and Requirements.

ABSTRACT: This review focuses on investigations of groundwater flow and solute transport in karst aquifers through laboratory scale models (LSMs). In particular, LSMs have been used to generate new data under different hydraulic and contaminant transport conditions, testing of new approaches for site characterization, and providing new insights into flow and transport processes through complex karst aquifers. Due to the increasing need for LSMs to investigate a wide range of issues, associated with flow and solute migration karst aquifers this review attempts to classify, and introduce a framework for constructing a karst aquifer physical model that is more representative of field conditions. The LSMs are categorized into four groups: sand box, rock block, pipe/fracture network, and pipe-matrix coup

SUBMITTER: Mohammadi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8291341 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature