ABSTRACT
Groundwater flow and heat flow are similar in that they both require gradients (hydraulic and thermal, respectively), hydraulic conductivity, and thermal conductivity, and both are assumed to take place
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in a continuum in most conditions. Due to the similarities, both processes can be explained by very similar equations. Early investigators visualized these similarities and applied the already-established thermodynamic theories of Fourier and Newton to groundwater flow.
