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Perrochet, Pierre

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Perrochet, Pierre
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pierre.perrochet@unine.ch
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    Influence of capillarity on a simple harmonic oscillating water table: Sand column experiments and modeling
    (2005)
    Cartwright, Nick
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    Nielsen, Peter
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    Perrochet, Pierre 
    [1] Comprehensive measurements of the water table response to simple harmonic forcing at the base of a sand column are presented and discussed. In similar experiments, Nielsen and Perrochet ( 2000) observed that fluctuations in the total moisture were both damped and lagged relative to the water table fluctuations. As a result, the concept of a complex effective porosity was proposed as a convenient means to account for the damping and phase lag through its magnitude and argument, respectively. The complex effective porosity then enables simple analytical solutions for the water table ( and total moisture) dynamics including hysteresis. In this paper, these previous experiments are extended to cover a wider range of oscillation frequencies and are conducted for three well-sorted materials with median grain diameters of 0.082, 0.2, and 0.78 mm, respectively. In agreement with existing theory, the influence of the capillary fringe is shown to increase with the oscillation frequency. However, the complex effective porosity model corresponding to the classical Green and Ampt (1911) capillary tube approximations is shown to be inadequate when compared to the data. These limitations are overcome by the provision of an empirical, frequency-dependent complex effective porosity model fit to the data. Using measured moisture retention parameters, numerical simulation of the data solving a nonhysteretic van Genuchten - Richards' equation type model is unable to replicate the observations. Existing results of a hysteretic numerical model are shown to be in good agreement with the extended database.
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    Groundwater waves in aquifers of intermediate depths
    (1997)
    Nielsen, Peter
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    Aseervatham, Raj
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    Fenton, John D
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    Perrochet, Pierre 
    In order to model recent observations of groundwater dynamics in beaches, a system of equations is derived for the propagation of periodic watertable waves in unconfined aquifers of intermediate depths, i.e. for finite values of the dimensionless aquifer depth n omega d/K which is assumed small under the Dupuit-Forchheimer approach that leads to the Boussinesq equation. Detailed consideration is given to equations of second- and infinite-order in this parameter. In each case, small amplitude (eta/d much less than 1) as well as finite amplitude versions are discussed. The small amplitude equations have solutions of the form eta(x, t) = eta(0)e(-kx)e(i omega t) in analogy with the linearized Boussinesq equation but the complex wave numbers k are different. These new wave numbers compare well with observations from a Hele-Shaw cell which were previously unexplained. The ''exact'' velocity potential for small amplitude watertable waves, the equivalent of Airy waves, is presented. These waves show a number of remarkable features. They become non-dispersive in the short-wave limit with a finite and quite slow decay rate affording an explanation for observed behaviour of wave-induced porewater pressure fluctuations in beaches. They also show an increasing amplitude of pressure fluctuations towards the base, in analogy with the evanescent modes of linear surface gravity waves. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd