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A low-dimensional subsurface model for saturated and unsaturated flow processes: ability to address heterogeneity

Sylvain Weill
Frederick Delay
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Philippe Ackerer

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A low-dimensional model that describes both saturated and unsaturated flow processes in a single equation is presented. Subsurface flow processes in the groundwater, the vadose zone, and the capillary fringe are accounted for through the computation of aggregated hydrodynamic parameters that result from the integration of the governing flow equations from the bedrock to the land surface. The three-dimensional subsurface flow dynamics are thus described by a two-dimensional equation, allowing for a drastic reduction of model unknowns and simplification of the model parameterizations. This approach is compared with a full resolution of the Richards equation in different synthetic test cases. Because the model reduction stems from the vertical integration of the flow equations, the test cases all use different configurations of heterogeneity for vertical cross-sections of a soil-aquifer system. The low-dimensional flow model shows strong consistency with results from a complete resolution of the Richards equation for both the water table and fluxes. The proposed approach is therefore well suited to the accurate reproduction of complex subsurface flow processes.
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hal-03706645 , version 1 (27-06-2022)

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Sylvain Weill, Frederick Delay, Yi Pan, Philippe Ackerer. A low-dimensional subsurface model for saturated and unsaturated flow processes: ability to address heterogeneity. Computational Geosciences, 2017, 21 (2), pp.301-314. ⟨10.1007/s10596-017-9613-8⟩. ⟨hal-03706645⟩
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