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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,460 Views
18 Pages

Double Drainage Consolidation Theory of Vertical Drains Based on Continuous Drainage Boundary Conditions

  • Yi Zhang,
  • Benchi Hou,
  • Ke Ma,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Mengfan Zong and
  • Lingzhou Kong

18 April 2024

Conventionally, drainage boundaries are often assumed to be either perfectly permeable or completely impermeable. However, a more realistic approach considers continuous drainage boundaries. In this context, an analytical solution for double drainage...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,777 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2023

Adopting the non-Darcy flow presented by Hansbo and considering the nonlinear compression and permeability characteristics of soils, the one-dimensional nonlinear consolidation problem of soft clays is investigated by means of a continuous drainage b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Soil and Rock Behavior for Geotechnical and Geohazard Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,125 Views
18 Pages

A One-Dimensional Nonlinear Consolidation Analysis of Double-Layered Soil with Continuous Drainage Boundary

  • Yi Zhang,
  • Yong Yin,
  • Mengfan Zong,
  • Wenbing Wu,
  • Zhongling Zong and
  • Guoxiong Mei

26 October 2023

Based on the soil nonlinearity assumptions proposed by Mesri, the one-dimensional nonlinear consolidation of double-layered soil is investigated. To better align with engineering reality, a continuous drainage boundary is introduced, bolstering the r...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,880 Views
14 Pages

25 December 2020

In geotechnical engineering, the consolidation of unsaturated soil is a common issue of great interest. Considering the multi-layered property and impeded drainage boundary condition of the soil stratum in real engineering, this study aimed to develo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Geotechnical Engineering Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,141 Views
20 Pages

21 December 2018

The consolidation process of soil stratum is a common issue in geotechnical engineering. In this paper, the two-dimensional (2D) plane strain consolidation process of unsaturated soil was studied by incorporating vertical impeded drainage boundaries....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid Flow in Fractured Porous Media)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,050 Views
12 Pages

28 May 2022

The nonlinear flow law and soil boundaries greatly affect the dissipation process of soil consolidation. Thus, to study the impact of nonlinear flow under impeded drainage boundaries, the classical non-Darcian flow model described by non-Newtonian in...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,417 Views
15 Pages

12 November 2019

Drainage conditions are supposed to have significant influence on sand liquefaction behavior. An infiltration device was utilized in cyclic triaxial tests to reproduce different drainage conditions by altering dry density of the within silt. Permeabi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Offshore Wind Soil–Structure Interaction (SSI))
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,970 Views
17 Pages

Marine soft soil foundation is a double-layer foundation structure with a crust layer and soft substratum. Moreover, it is common that there are various forms of drainage. Accordingly, based on Terzaghi’s consolidation theory and the continuous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Marine Engineering Geology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,776 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2020

Within a drainage system, drainage ditches are designed to improve existing natural drainage. Although drainage ditches are mostly engineered, they can also be part of natural watercourses. For environmental sustainability, in many places there are g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Planning for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,434 Views
17 Pages

The water trap seal is still the main method of protecting building inhabitants from the ingress of foul contaminated air and noxious gases from the sewer. This seal can become compromised when water is lost in the trap by processes including evapora...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
948 Views
25 Pages

17 September 2025

We perform large-eddy simulations (LESs) with realistic radiation, including topographic shading, and an advanced land surface model to investigate drainage flow dynamics in an idealized compound-slope mountain geometry. This allows an analysis not o...

(This article belongs to the Section Meteorology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,006 Views
15 Pages

5 June 2018

Boundary conditions of the liquid–solid interface of micro/nano fluid flow are of great interest, as slippage is linked with decreased drag. However, previous studies have seldom included a systematic analysis of the effect of roughness on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanofluids and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
13,330 Views
22 Pages

12 March 2015

Vegetated swales are an accepted and commonly implemented sustainable urban drainage system in the built urban environment. Laboratory and field research has defined the effectiveness of a vegetated swale in sediment detention during a single rainfal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Drainage Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,628 Views
14 Pages

Thermal Effect in Nonlinear One-Dimensional Consolidation of Cold Region Soil

  • Zongqin Wang,
  • Wenbing Wu,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Zuodong Wang,
  • Ruichen Xi and
  • Minjie Wen

4 August 2022

The thermal effect can significantly influence the consolidation of the soil, especially in the cold region. Previous studies have established to research that the drops in the ambient temperature would slow down the consolidation process, resulting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,789 Views
13 Pages

27 June 2024

The concept of watersheds, also called catchments, is fundamental to both flood mitigation and water resource management, as it greatly aids in the calculation of overland flow attributes. Watershed boundaries are typically determined by elevation, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Watershed Hydrology and Management under Changing Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
838 Views
13 Pages

14 October 2025

The combined disaster of roof water and rock burst occurs while working faces with roof-confined water during the mining process, and poses a significant threat to mine production safety. The drainage of confined water from the coal seam roof is a ke...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploration, Exploitation and Utilization of Coal and Gas Resources, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
198 Views
26 Pages

Evolution Model of Gas Pressure Around Coal Seam Boreholes and Determination of the Effective Drainage Radius

  • Kang Li,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Junnan Shen,
  • Yanming Zhang,
  • Hao Xu and
  • Zhenshun Zhang

1 October 2026

The effective drainage radius is a key parameter for borehole layout and gas drainage performance evaluation, and it is determined by the spatiotemporal evolution of gas pressure around drainage boreholes. Taking the M4–5 coal seam of a Xinjian...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Processes in Mining Safety and Disaster Prevention: From Gas Extraction to Fire/Dust Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,216 Views
14 Pages

4 September 2020

Drainage asphalt pavement provides excellent drainage performance and driving safety, where the permeability of the pavement is the critical performance. When analyzing the permeability of drainage asphalt pavements, the previously used two-dimension...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Construction Materials for Sustainable Pavements)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,056 Views
23 Pages

Research on the Failure Mechanism of Surrounding Rock in a Dynamic Pressure Roadway and Active and Passive Coordinated Support Technology

  • Renliang Shan,
  • Yonghui Wei,
  • Chunhe Wang,
  • Zhaolong Li,
  • Yongzhen Li,
  • Dong Liu and
  • Xinpeng Zhao

23 February 2024

To study the phenomenon of large deformation and the failure of roadways under dynamic pressure, this paper takes the 10607 gas drainage roadway as the research object and presents the results of a theoretical derivation of equations for the boundary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Underground Coal Mining and Ground Control Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,168 Views
22 Pages

Numerical Study of Side Boundary Effects in Pore-Scale Digital Rock Flow Simulations

  • Qihui Zhang,
  • Meijian Liang,
  • Yongbin Zhang,
  • Dong Wang,
  • Jianping Yang,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Liandong Tang,
  • Xuehao Pei and
  • Bihui Zhou

21 November 2025

This work presents a numerical study of side boundary effects in pore-scale digital rock flow simulations, where the side boundaries are often treated as no-slip walls. While the capillary end effects from inlet and outlet boundaries are well known,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,604 Views
22 Pages

29 August 2022

Gas control in the heading face of a coal roadway is an important and difficult point in coal mining in China. On the basis of analyzing the disadvantages of high gas control cost and long drainage period in the existing mine heading face, a long-dis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Method and Technology of Green Coal Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,272 Views
13 Pages

31 July 2025

In this case study, we used the Delta Simulation Model II (DSM2) to study the salt balance at the land–water interface in the river delta of California’s San Francisco Estuary. Drainage, a source of water and salt for adjacent channels in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Coastal Hydrological and Geological Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,022 Views
24 Pages

19 January 2026

Urban underpasses are critical flood-prone hotspots during extreme rainfall, posing significant threats to urban resilience and infrastructure safety. However, a scale gap persists between catchment-scale hydrological models, which often oversimplify...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Key Technologies for Green Construction and Safe Operation and Maintenance of Tunnels and Underground Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,103 Views
21 Pages

Plio-Pleistocene Landscape Evolution of the Turano River Basin (Central Apennines, Italy): Insights from Continental Deposits’ Analysis and Drainage Network Development

  • Vania Mancinelli,
  • Gian Paolo Cavinato,
  • Francesco Ciavattella,
  • Alessandro Cecili,
  • Maurizio D’Orefice,
  • Carmela Epifani,
  • Gianluca Esposito,
  • Massimiliano Fazzini,
  • Giorgio Paglia and
  • Enrico Miccadei
  • + 1 author

Quaternary continental deposits record spatio-temporal changes of the landscape and offer insights for drainage network analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. This paper focuses on the Turano River, a left tributary of the Velino River, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
694 Views
22 Pages

Research on the Mechanisms and Influencing Factors of Sediment Accumulation in Mountain Tunnel Drainage Trenches

  • Yichen Peng,
  • Jinhui Jing,
  • Yimin Wu,
  • Shuai Yang,
  • Haiping Wu,
  • Yangqi Xiang,
  • Delei Jing and
  • Hongshan Yin

10 February 2026

Sediment accumulation in the drainage systems of mountain tunnels is a typical issue threatening operational safety. To explore the sedimentation behavior under the coupling of multiple factors, this study systematically analyzes the coupled effects...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tunnel Construction and Underground Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,087 Views
22 Pages

Ground-Penetrating Radar Method for Studying Water Drainage in Sand Layers

  • Vladimir Shapovalov,
  • Andrey Vasilchenko,
  • Victor Yavna,
  • Andrei Kochur and
  • Maksim Okost

9 December 2022

A ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology was developed to study the process of water drainage in sand layers with an insignificant concentration of dusty and clayey particles when moistened from above. The technology includes a method of calibrati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid Flows in Geotechnical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
443 Views
37 Pages

19 August 2026

Rapid urbanization and extreme rainfall have increased pluvial flood pressure in dense urban areas, yet many drainage problems emerge at microscale interfaces that conventional flood monitoring does not capture well. Focusing on the built-up area of...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,489 Views
17 Pages

Establishing Improved Modeling Practices of Segment-Tailored Boundary Conditions for Pluvial Urban Floods

  • Leon Frederik De Vos,
  • Nils Rüther,
  • Karan Mahajan,
  • Antonia Dallmeier and
  • Karl Broich

29 August 2024

Establishing appropriate boundary conditions is essential for developing high-accuracy hydrodynamic models. However, this task is particularly challenging in topographically varying urban domains without monotonous slopes due to insufficient boundary...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,336 Views
26 Pages

The North Train Railway in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) extends over vast areas, crossing various terrains, including valleys, sand veins, plateaus, and hills. Therefore, the railway was designed and implemented to suit this environmental divers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,062 Views
22 Pages

Exploring Spatial Patterns of Tropical Peatland Subsidence in Selangor, Malaysia Using the APSIS-DInSAR Technique

  • Betsabé de la Barreda-Bautista,
  • Martha J. Ledger,
  • Sofie Sjögersten,
  • David Gee,
  • Andrew Sowter,
  • Beth Cole,
  • Susan E. Page,
  • David J. Large,
  • Chris D. Evans and
  • Doreen S. Boyd
  • + 2 authors

20 June 2024

Tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia have experienced widespread subsidence due to forest clearance and drainage for agriculture, oil palm and pulp wood production, causing concerns about their function as a long-term carbon store. Peatland drainage...

(This article belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,373 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2018

For a gas–solid–liquid coupling model of coal seams, previous permeability models basically supposed uniaxial strains as the boundary condition for coal reservoirs without considering the deformation caused by changes in humidity. The permeability mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,543 Views
12 Pages

The stream threshold is a user-defined and important parameter that directly affects the drainage network and basin boundaries that would be obtained as a result of hydrological analysis. There have been several approaches developed for the stream th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis in Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
330 Views
24 Pages

Temperature Field and Soil Deformation of Seasonally Frozen Embankment Section Under River Operating Water Levels

  • Zhengru Tao,
  • Mengchenghao Zhang,
  • Shuang Li,
  • Haishan Wang,
  • Renhui Guan and
  • Qixun Lv

14 September 2026

The stability of engineering structures in frozen regions is primarily governed by the coupled evolution of temperature, moisture migration, and stress fields driven by freeze–thaw cycles. In this study, a typical embankment section in Heilongj...

(This article belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
  • Article
  • Open Access
153 Views
27 Pages

16 September 2026

Tunnel drainage deterioration reduces groundwater release capacity and may increase local water pressure behind linings, whereas aggregate outlet discharge can conceal different local pressure states after capacity or connectivity changes. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,875 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2023

The plastic zone of the surrounding rock of the borehole is a high-quality channel for gas flow. Studying the distribution form of the plastic zone in the surrounding rock of the boreholes and the characteristics of the extended connection network is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stability Control of Underground Openings under High Stress and Deep Mining Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,379 Views
14 Pages

26 July 2023

Large-energy microseismic events, coal bursts, and other abnormal mine stress are often observed in spatial isolated island areas in the roof water-rich gob-side working face during mining operations. In view of this problem, numerical simulation and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fracking and Permeability Enhancement in Fractured Rock Masses for Underground Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,991 Views
27 Pages

Incorporation of Horizontal Aquifer Flow into a Vertical Vadose Zone Model to Simulate Natural Groundwater Table Fluctuations

  • Vipin Kumar Oad,
  • Adam Szymkiewicz,
  • Tomasz Berezowski,
  • Anna Gumuła-Kawęcka,
  • Jirka Šimůnek,
  • Beata Jaworska-Szulc and
  • René Therrien

8 July 2025

The main goal of our work was to evaluate approaches for modeling lateral outflow from shallow unconfined aquifers in a one-dimensional model of vertical variably-saturated flow. The HYDRUS-1D model was modified by implementing formulas representing...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,104 Views
21 Pages

Fuzzy Unsteady-State Drainage Solution for Land Reclamation

  • Christos Tzimopoulos,
  • Nikiforos Samarinas,
  • Kyriakos Papadopoulos and
  • Christos Evangelides

24 January 2023

Very well-drained lands could have a positive impact in various soil health indicators such as soil erosion and soil texture. A drainage system is responsible for properly aerated soil. Until today, in order to design a drainage system, a big challen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Groundwater Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
612 Views
21 Pages

20 January 2026

This study proposes a cross-disciplinary computational framework to advance the sustainable design of free-form grid roofs in hot climates, integrating architectural geometry with building thermal performance to enhance climate adaptability. Numerica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
311 Views
27 Pages

26 August 2026

Rainfall-induced seepage instability is a major concern for internal waste dump slopes in cold-region open-pit coal mines, where slope performance is influenced by groundwater conditions, moisture state, and seasonal temperature variations. This stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,474 Views
21 Pages

Sustainability Evaluation Framework of Urban Stormwater Drainage Options for Arid Environments Using Hydraulic Modeling and Multicriteria Decision-Making

  • Mohammad Alhumaid,
  • Abul Razzaq Ghumman,
  • Husnain Haider,
  • Ibrahim Saleh Al-Salamah and
  • Yousry Mahmoud Ghazaw

29 April 2018

Stormwater drainage systems in urban areas located in arid environmental regions generally consist of storm-sewer networks and man-made ponds for the collection and disposal of runoff, respectively. Due to expansion in cities’ boundaries as a r...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,643 Views
13 Pages

The Weather Conditions for Desired Smoke Plumes at a FASMEE Burn Site

  • Yongqiang Liu,
  • Scott Goodrick and
  • Gary Achtemeier

12 July 2018

Weather is an important factor that determines smoke development, which is essential information for planning smoke field measurements. This study identifies the synoptic systems that would favor to produce the desired smoke plumes for the Fire and S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fire and the Atmosphere)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,329 Views
11 Pages

An Analytical Solution to the 1D Drainage Problem

  • Konstantinos Kalimeris and
  • Leonidas Mindrinos

14 October 2025

We derive an analytical solution to the one-dimensional linearized Boussinesq equation with mixed boundary conditions (Dirichlet–Neumann), formulated to describe drainage in porous media. The solution is obtained via the unified transform metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soliton Theory and Integrable Systems in Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
698 Views
29 Pages

Previous morphological studies have confirmed that Canton settlements maintain a stable cultural landscape sequence consisting of ponds, open spaces, ancestral halls, residences, and forests. Villages in the Dongjiang River Basin exhibit an inherent...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,023 Views
16 Pages

1 November 2016

This study proposed two methods, boundary-type and pond-type, to link overland and underground space in urban flood modeling. The boundary-type treats the exit of underground space as an interface for inflow of floodwater by imposing open boundary co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Drainage and Urban Stormwater Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,663 Views
13 Pages

1 November 2022

The instability and fracturing of gas drainage boreholes are one of the main causes of low drainage efficiency. Based on the rock mass energy principle and the Barenblatt model, the energy evolution of the coal–rock mass around the hole, the co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Mining and Emergency Prevention and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,294 Views
31 Pages

12 April 2019

Stormwater urban drainage systems are typically designed in open channel flow. Pipe sewers must have enough capacity to transport maximum design flows for a given frequency of the project rainfall. The classic rational method or related procedures th...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
531 Views
15 Pages

6 January 2026

Commercialization of natural gas hydrates still faces challenges. Before large-scale production becomes feasible, efficient exploitation methods must be continuously explored. Based on field data from China’s first trial production, a novel fiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Gas Hydrate Development and Production for Sustainable Energy)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,873 Views
7 Pages

15 November 2023

This study focused on the urban river management using geospatial techniques of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) and its associated watersheds of the Bindal River and Rispana River. Shutter Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Mo...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 10th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,533 Views
29 Pages

This work analyzes the role of paleo-drainage network, morphotectonics, and surface processes in landscape evolution in a sector of the transition zone between the chain and the piedmont area of Central Apennines. Particularly, it focuses on the Verd...

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