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Estimating Permeability from the Grain-Size Distributions of Natural Sediment
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Mastera, Lawrence
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2010, Master of Science (MS), Wright State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Abstract
Permeability, k, can be estimated using the Kozeny-Carman equation, given a grain-size distribution with any number of grain-size categories and the porosity of a sediment. A recursive method was developed to calculate the effective grain-size parameter, d, for sediment mixtures with more than three grain sizes. The method was tested on four sediment models of sand, gravelly sand, sandy gravel, and open-framework gravel created from grain-size distributions. The k estimated from the recursive method were consistent with physical measurements of k.
Committee
Robert Ritzi, PhD (Committee Chair)
David Dominic, PhD (Committee Member)
Mark Goltz, PhD (Committee Member)
Ramya Ramanathan, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
58 p.
Subject Headings
Geology
Keywords
Permeability
;
Grain-Size Distributions
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Estimating
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Kozeny-Carman
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Sediment
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Mastera, L. (2010).
Estimating Permeability from the Grain-Size Distributions of Natural Sediment
[Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278618761
APA Style (7th edition)
Mastera, Lawrence.
Estimating Permeability from the Grain-Size Distributions of Natural Sediment.
2010. Wright State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278618761.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Mastera, Lawrence. "Estimating Permeability from the Grain-Size Distributions of Natural Sediment." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278618761
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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