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W. A. Illman and D. M. Tartakovsky, "Asymptotic analysis of cross-hole hydraulic tests in fractured granite", Ground Water, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 555-563, 2006

Abstract

Illman and Tartakovsky (2005a,b) developed a new approach for the interpretation of three-dimensional pneumatic well tests conducted in porous or fractured geologic media, which is based on a straight-line analysis of late-time data. We modify this approach to interpret three-dimensional well tests in the saturated zone, and use it to analyze the cross-hole hydraulic test data collected in the FEBEX gallery at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS) in Switzerland. The equivalent hydraulic conductivity and specific storage obtained from our analysis increase with the radial distance between the centroids of the pumping and monitoring intervals. Since this scale effect is observed from a single test type (cross-hole tests), it is less ambiguous than scale effects typically inferred from laboratory and multiple types of hydraulic tests (e.g., slug, single- and cross-hole tests). The statistical analysis of the estimated hydraulic parameters shows a strong correlation between equivalent hydraulic conductivity and specific storage.

BibTeX Entry

@article{illman-2006-asymptotic,
author = {W. A. Illman and D. M. Tartakovsky},
title = {Asymptotic analysis of cross-hole hydraulic tests in fractured granite},
year = {2006},
urlpdf = {http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/Tartakovsky/Papers/illman-2006-asymptotic.pdf},
journal = {Ground Water},
volume = {44},
number = {4},
pages = {555-563}
}