Variation and correlation of hydrologic properties
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
Hydrological properties vary within a given geological formation and even more so among different soil and rock media. The variance of the saturated permeability is shown to be related to the variance of the pore-size distribution index of a given medium by a simple equation. This relationship is deduced by comparison of the data from Yucca Mountain, Nevada (Peters et al., 1984), Las Cruces, New Mexico (Wierenga et al., 1989), and Apache Leap, Arizona (Rasmussen et al., 1990). These and other studies in different soils and rocks also support the Poiseuille-Carmen relationship between the mean value of saturated permeability and the mean value of capillary radius. Correlations of the mean values and variances between permeability and pore-geometry parameters can lead us to better quantification of heterogeneous flow fields and better understanding of the scaling laws of hydrological properties.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 138335
- Report Number(s):
- LBL--29700; ON: DE92000647
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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