Karst Modeling
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Groundwater management in karstic aquifers has several challenges because of the characterization of a mixed flow in porous media and karstic conduits and the high uncertainty in the geometry and flow properties of the conduit network. Numerical modeling is a tool to provide effective answers for the evaluation of flow and quality in a karstic network, the interaction with water bodies and the availability/vulnerability as a water source.
Hatarilabs develops groundwater models coupled with conduit flow process to simulate the laminar and turbulent groundwater flow conditions on karstic aquifers. Evaluations and estimations from the numerical simulations are useful for groundwater protection zone delineation, ecosystem preservation, water supply vulnerability analysis and related topics.
Baseline
To develop groundwater flow models on karstic aquifers these data is required:
Hydrogeology
Piezometric levels on observation points.
Aquifer parameters (hydraulic conductivity and storage coefficient).
Geometry of the hydrogeological units.
Groundwater chemistry
Karstic conduits
Geometry of the karstic conduits (from geophysical reseach)
Flow measurements on the conduits
Conduit water chemistry
Topography
Elevation curves of less than 0.5 meters in the zone of interest.
Other data could be required based on the study area.
Contact us
Address: Av. Caminos del Inca 288 dpto 302.
Santiago de Surco - Lima
Tel: +511 4491922
Cel (Whatsapp): +51 984115865
Email: saulmontoya@hatarilabs.com
On previous and actual times, there is a high concern about the interaction of mining, industry and municipality waste with the groundwater flow regime, groundwater quality and potential impacts to downstream water bodies and water sources. Contaminant transport modeling is key to understand the development of the contaminant plumes, to quantify the impacts to water quality and mostly important to design groundwater remediation schemas.
Hatarilabs has a wide expertise on contaminant transport modeling with experience on several cases covering unsaturated transport, multiphase transport, reactive transport, transient calibration with observed concentrations, mass balances. Hatarilabs handle tools and scripts to incorporate big amount of observation data on extensive periods of time with high quality control on model construction and high accuracy on the model predictions.