Modeling Seepage Control in Hydraulic Structures
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This paper brings together random field generation and finite element technique to model steady
state seepage through two dimensional soil domain in which the hydraulic conductivity is randomly
distributed in space. The analysis treats the hydraulic conductivity as a spatially random property with
specified mean, variance and spatial correlation length. The results of the combined model used in an
optimization procedure to obtain the optimum dimension of the hydraulic structure seepage control
techniques.
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