Directly Generating Spatially Periodic, Heterogeneous Groundwater Flow Fields: A Finite Volume Approach

• Published in: Water resources research Vol. 58; no. 8
• Main Authors: Zhou, Lian, Hansen, Scott K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.08.2022
• Subjects: divergence theorem; heterogeneous media; mass conservation; spatially periodic domain; steady Darcy flow; stochastic simulation

We present a finite volume approach for generating doubly‐periodic, 2D heterogeneous groundwater velocity fields, given an arbitrary hydraulic conductivity field discretized on a rectangular lattice. The method conserves mass, allows direct specification of any desired mean flow direction and comput...