Characterization and Numerical Verification of Seepage Scenarios in Anisotropic Soils under Retaining Structures and in Unconfined Aquifers due to Pumping Wells

Fecha de lectura

24/05/2021

Director

Iván Alhama Manteca

Grupo de investigación

Simulación por Redes

Departamento

Ingeniería Minera y Civil

Centro

Escuela de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos y de Ingeniería de Minas

Organimso

Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

Ciudad

Cartagena

País

España

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is the search and verification of the dimensionless groups that govern the geotechnical problems of flow through porous media under gravity dams with or without a sheet pile at its base and groundwater flow in unconfined aquifers due to a pumping well. The aim is to find the groups which the dimensionless unknowns of interest depend on. These unknowns (groundwater flow, pore pressure, average exit gradient, seepage surface, etc) change according to the chosen scenario. The methodology to obtain these groups is the discriminated nondimensionalization of the governing equation. The solutions are displayed in universal abaci that depict values of monomial and dimensionless variables. The curves have been represented after carrying out a large number of simulations by models, also shown in the thesis, that have been specifically designed according to the network method.

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