ABSTRACT

Comparison of BEM Results with Model Experiments for Free Surface Porous Media Flows T. Ryl (*), V. Halek (*), E. Bruch (**), B. Mergeai (**),A. Lejeune(**) (*)Research Institute of Ground Water, Technical University of Brno, Czechoslovakia (**) Laboratories of Hydro-Mechanics (L.H.M.), University of Liege, Belgium ABSTRACf The study of groundwater flow has become important during the last years since it has fundamentally dealt with fields as different as civil engineering, aquifer managing and petroleum engineering. A boundary element computation code was developed at the Laboratories of Hydro-Mechanics of the University of Li~ge to solve steady and unsteady porous media flows. Our purpose is to present here some comparisons between numerical results computed with this code and experimental results measured on a physical model obtained at the Research Institute of Ground Water of the University of Bmo.