Is it permissible to use darcys law under these circumstance

Reference no: EM13550305

An aquifer has a hydraulic conductivity of 12 ft/day and an effective porosity of 17% and is under a hydraulic gradient of 0.0055 m/m.

A. Compute the specific discharge in m/s.

B. Compute the average linear velocity in m/s.

C. The water temperature is 14 C and the mean pore diameter is 0.33 mm. Is it permissible to use Darcy’s law under these circumstances? What is the reason for your answer?

Reference no: EM13550305

Questions Cloud

Determine the inlet volumetric flow rate : Amomonia enters a refregeration system compressor operating at steady state at -18C, 138kPa. and exit at 150C, 1724kPa. The magitude of the power input to the compressor is 7,5kW and there is heat tranfser from the compressor to the surroundings at a..

Compute the depreciation expense under the method : Compute the depreciation expense under the methods for the year indicated - Straight-line for 2008.

Determine what is the thickness of the soap film : A thin soap film (n = 1.35) is suspended in air. The spectrum of light reflected from the film is missing two visible wavelengths of 490.8 nm and 589.0 nm, What is the thickness of the soap film

Which command in matlab is to delete all the variables : If variable Test(i,j) is selected so the first column represents the student number (1,2,..., 32), 2nd column represents the score of the first homework, 3rd column represents the score of the 2nd homework, etc. If there is a total of 6 homework for ..

Is it permissible to use darcys law under these circumstance : The water temperature is 14 C and the mean pore diameter is 0.33 mm. Is it permissible to use Darcy’s law under these circumstances? What is the reason for your answer?

Find the speed of the center of mass of two-cart system : Cart A, with a mass of 2 kg, travels on a horizontal air-track at 3 m/s and hits cart B, what is the speed of the center of mass of the two-cart system

Determine the total volume of the sandy silt : A 200,000 cubic m highway embankment is to be constructed at dry density of 1.85 Mg/m^3 and optimum moisture content of 16% by compacting sandy silt taken from a borrow pit. The in-situ bulk density of the sandy silt is 1.92 Mg/m^3 and its average wa..

A ferric chloride dosage of 40 mg/l and an equivalent dosage : A ferric chloride dosage of 40 mg/l and an equivalent dosage of lime are used to coagulate a water.

Calculate the fiber weight fraction : For unidirectional carbon/epoxy tape at a 60% fiber volume fraction, calculate E11 and E22. Given Ef= 211 GPa and Em =10 GPa. Calculate the fiber weight fraction. Given pf=1.95 g/cm3 and pm =1.3 g/cm3.

User Account

All Pages