DSD-NL 2015 - Geo Klantendag - Modeling piping under dikes and dams - John van Esch

Wednesday June 10th

Modeling piping under dikes and dams

Groundwater flow simulator DgFlow

John van Esch

26 juni 2015

DgFlow simulator

Processes

• Saturated and unsaturated groundwater flow

• Elasto – (plastic) deformations of the soil

• Heat transport

• Piping

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DgFlow interface

Piping module

Finite element model

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equilibrium condition

tan3

s lc

dpa gd

dx

Piping module

Sellmeijers rule

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,c r s gH F F F L

703 2.8

0.24tan , , 0.91 , .

1

s l

r s gl

d DF F FLL D

L

Piping module

Application

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WTI 2017 research

Model validation

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WTI 2017 research

Model validation

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Future work

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Integrating Dam, coupling Modflow and Delft3D

Modeling piping under dikes and dams

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Questions?

Piping module

Groundwater flow

conservation of mass + Darcy’s law

Van Genuchten material model

boundary conditions

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0, onr ij pli

i jli j

kqp p pdSn S n q gt t x xdp

1 if , form

ng

g pr s r a a s a

gS S S S g S S

2

1/1 1 ,m

l m

ggg r

r e e es r

S Sk S S SS S

1 2 3on , on , onp p p

i i i ip p q n q q n s

Piping module

Pipe flow

conservation of mass + Poiseuille flow

equilibrium condition

boundary condition

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30, on

12cdq dpas q

dx dx

70tan

3s ldp

a gddx

1on cp p

Piping module

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Grain equilibrium

shear stress equilibrium condition

tan6

s lc cg d

2dpadx

tan3

s lc

dpa gd

dx

Deformation module

26 juni 2015

flow flow - deformation