TY - GEN
T1 - Pumping saline groundwater
T2 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2015: Floods, Droughts, and Ecosystems
AU - Sherif, Mohsen
AU - Javadi, Akbar
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - This paper investigates the effectiveness of saline water pumping from coastal regions as a technique for controlling seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers while allowing the freshwater pumping to continue as usual. SUTRA, a variable-density ground-water flow with solute or energy transport, was used to simulate the flow and solute transport processes under various excitations of an idealized confined coastal aquifer. The simulations were conducted in a two-dimensional vertical view to account for the density variation. The equipotential and equiconcentration were presented to demonstrate correlation between groundwater flow and solute transport. Saline water pumping from coastal zones can be designed to semi-isolate the saline water flow field from the freshwater flow field. Therefore, the seawater intrusion will not be allowed to migrate far inland beyond the saline water pumping zone.
AB - This paper investigates the effectiveness of saline water pumping from coastal regions as a technique for controlling seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers while allowing the freshwater pumping to continue as usual. SUTRA, a variable-density ground-water flow with solute or energy transport, was used to simulate the flow and solute transport processes under various excitations of an idealized confined coastal aquifer. The simulations were conducted in a two-dimensional vertical view to account for the density variation. The equipotential and equiconcentration were presented to demonstrate correlation between groundwater flow and solute transport. Saline water pumping from coastal zones can be designed to semi-isolate the saline water flow field from the freshwater flow field. Therefore, the seawater intrusion will not be allowed to migrate far inland beyond the saline water pumping zone.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784479162.055
DO - 10.1061/9780784479162.055
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84935119728
T3 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2015: Floods, Droughts, and Ecosystems - Proceedings of the 2015 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress
SP - 606
EP - 612
BT - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2015
A2 - Webster, Veronica L.
A2 - Karvazy, Karen
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Y2 - 17 May 2015 through 21 May 2015
ER -