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- Title
Deduction of the Dimensionless Groups and Type Curves of Temperature Profiles in Two-Layer Soils with Water Flow at Depth.
- Authors
Alhama, Iván; Jiménez-Valera, José Antonio; Cánovas, Manuel; Alhama, Francisco
- Abstract
In the common hydrogeologic scenarios of horizontal groundwater flow and a water table below the surface, the steady-state 2D thermal field resulting from the coupling between water flow and heat flow and transport gives rise to a vertical temperature profile that develops progressively over a finite extent of the domain. Beyond this region, the temperature profiles are linear and independent of horizontal position. Such profiles are related to the groundwater velocity so they can be usefully used to estimate this velocity in the form of an inverse problem. By non-dimensionalization of the governing equations and boundary conditions, this manuscript formally derives the precise dimensionless groups governing the main unknowns of the problem, namely, (i) extent of the profile development region, (ii) time required for the steady-state temperature profile solution to be reached and (iii) the temperature–depth profiles themselves at each horizontal position of the development region. After verifying the mathematical dependencies of these unknowns on the deduced dimensionless groups, and by means of a large number of accurate numerical simulations, the type curves related to the horizontal extension of the development of the steady-state profiles, the characteristic time to develop such profiles and the dimensionless vertical temperature profiles inside the characteristic region are derived. These universal graphs can be used for the estimation of groundwater horizontal velocities from temperature–depth measurements.
- Subjects
DIMENSIONLESS numbers; SOLIFLUCTION; SOIL profiles; WATER depth; SOIL moisture; HYDROGEOLOGY
- Publication
Mathematics (2227-7390), 2024, Vol 12, Issue 2, p235
- ISSN
2227-7390
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/math12020235