Control of groundwater by underground dams

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In this study underground dams are briefly described and detailed information about the design and construction aspects is provided. Since the material, of which dam wall is composed, is the main variable influencing the groundwater behavior, various types of dam wall are discussed. The use and usefulness of the underground dams as a means of sustainable development, and their performance in the management of groundwater resources are analyzed with the help of two example studies. In the first example a hypothetical idealized aquifer is considered, while in the second one, a real aquifer is selected. For the performance evaluation, and for the analysis of the impact of the underground dams on the groundwater behavior, numerical simulation is opted. For that purpose, a well-known computer code, MODFLOW, A Modular Three-Dimensional Finite Difference Groundwater Flow Model of U.S. Geological Survey, (McDonald and Harbaugh, 1988) is used.
Groundwater, Water, Hydrogeology
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13701
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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M. Yılmaz, “Control of groundwater by underground dams,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
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