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Heat as a Tracer for Examining Depth-Decaying Permeability in Gravel Deposits
| Title: | Heat as a Tracer for Examining Depth-Decaying Permeability in Gravel Deposits |
| Authors: | Sakata, Yoshitaka Browse this author |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2015 |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Journal Title: | Groundwater |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | S1 |
| Start Page: | 21 |
| End Page: | 32 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1111/gwat.12236 |
| PMID: | 25047679 |
| Abstract: | Depth dependence of permeability can appear in any geologic setting; however, vertical trends in alluvial gravel deposits are poorly understood because of the high variability of hydraulic conductivity K in monotonic sequences. This paper examines the sensitivity of depth-decaying permeability through heat transport simulation around a river's losing reach in the Toyohira River alluvial fan, Japan. Observed variations in groundwater temperature indicate that heat fluxes are dominant in the shallow zone, despite a vertical hydraulic gradient. In eight cases with different conditions (presence or absence of exponential decay trend, large or small variogram range, and cell isotropy or anisotropy) 1000 K realizations are stochastically generated throughout a cross-sectional model. The groundwater flow and heat transport are transiently calculated, and the averaged root mean square error RMSE?</mml:mover> is used for sensitivity comparison. The variance of RMSE?</mml:mover> shows that small RMSE<mml:mo stretchy="true">?</mml:mover> realizations are effectively reproduced with vertical trend assumed. Plausible realizations of <mml:mover>RMSE<mml:mo stretchy="true">?</mml:mover> below a given threshold were obtained only when a vertical trend was assumed. The most plausible realization almost completely matched the observations. However, the number of plausible realizations per case was 10 and the median <mml:mover>RMSE<mml:mo stretchy="true">?</mml:mover> were insensitive to all the conditions. Statistical testing suggested that these plausible realizations may be statistically significant, aiding in generating a connected K zone for high heat flows. The cell anisotropy condition had the smallest effect on the simulation. Thus, effective modeling of the vertical trend contributes to heat transport; however, the model's efficiency is low without detailed information about the sedimentary structure. |
| Rights: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Groundwater, Volume 53, Issue S1, pages 21–32, April 2015, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gwat.12236/abstract. |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/61038 |
| Appears in Collections: | 工学院・工学研究院 (Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 阪田 義隆
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