In this chapter we accept that groundwater flow only occurs in the
saturated region of a porous soil, and we assume that the pores in a
medium such as sand are interconnected and that the fluid can flow
through them. The ratio of these voids to the total volume is called
porosity and is denoted by
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(6.1)
The relationship governing groundwater flow is known as Darcy's
law. Its form can be deduced from the general Navier-Stokes
equations under the assumption that the flow is laminar and that
inertial forces are negligible when compared with the viscous forces.
Given the Reynold ...
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