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A general method for obtaining analytical expressions for the first‐order velocity covariance in heterogeneous porous media
Author(s) -
Hsu KuoChin
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/1999wr900117
Subject(s) - covariance , hydraulic conductivity , porous medium , isotropy , covariance function , function (biology) , mathematics , correlation function (quantum field theory) , flow (mathematics) , mathematical analysis , groundwater , expression (computer science) , statistical physics , porosity , mechanics , soil science , geotechnical engineering , statistics , environmental science , geology , geometry , physics , computer science , soil water , spectral density , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology , programming language
Velocity covariance of seepage flow is the essential quantity in understanding the uncertainty of groundwater flow and contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media. Nevertheless, a closed‐form analytical expression is available only for first‐order analysis. These available expressions are limited to some specific correlation functions of natural log hydraulic conductivity. The present paper develops a general method for obtaining the first‐order velocity covariance for any statistically isotropic log‐hydraulic conductivity correlation function. The general analytical expressions are derived for both two and three dimensions. The results are demonstrated for several frequently used correlation functions.