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Watertable fluctuations in coastal unconfined aquifers with a sloping sea boundary: Vertical flow and dynamic effective porosity effects

Interactions between the tide and sloping sea boundary make watertable fluctuations in coastal unconfined aquifers complicated. Based on a perturbation method, we derived a new analytical solution to predict watertable fluctuations for coastal unconfined a ...

2023

Effects of Unsaturated Flow on Salt Distributions in Tidally Influenced Coastal Unconfined Aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Zhaoyang Luo

Unsaturated flow influences both the seawater extent under steady-state conditions and the propagation of tides in coastal aquifers. However, its effects on salt distributions in tidally influenced coastal aquifers are little investigated. The present stud ...

2023

Perturbations of heterotrophs and autotrophs in tidally dynamic coastal sediments: Development of a scalable model

Zhaoyang Luo

Tidal wetlands undergoing regular tidal inundation contribute more than 60% CO(2) uptake of the coastal ocean. However, a comprehensive understanding of tidal microbial spatial distribution is poorly known, giving rise to previously ignored perturbations o ...

WILEY2023

Impact of sandy beach recovery on solute transport in coastal unconfined aquifers

Zhaoyang Luo

Beach recovery describes the processes by which there is a natural restoration of beach material and coastal morphology following storm events, and these processes are common across the globe. However, the effects of beach recovery on salinity distribution ...

SPRINGER2023

Dynamic Effective Porosity Explains Laboratory Experiments on Watertable Fluctuations in Coastal Unconfined Aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Zhaoyang Luo

Watertable fluctuations are a characteristic feature of coastal unconfined aquifers. They interact with the vadose zone creating a dynamic effective porosity, for which a new (empirical) expression is proposed based on a dimensionless parameter related to ...

2023

Approximate analytical solutions for assessing the effects of unsaturated flow on seawater extent in thin unconfined coastal aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Zhaoyang Luo

This study develops approximate analytical solutions for seawater extent in unconfined coastal aquifers considering unsaturated flow, and assuming steady-state, sharp-interface conditions, for both constant flux (flux-controlled aquifers) and constant head ...

2022

Zonations and oscillations via heterotrophic processes in tidal unvegetated aquifers

Zhaoyang Luo

Global-change drivers that alter tidal amplitude or sea level could directly impact coastal aquifers' seawater-microbe interactions. The semidiurnal or diurnal tide can have consequences for chemical redistribution, because it deepens oxygen and nutrients ...

WILEY2022

On the use of modified Boussinesq equation for studying double-layered hillslope recession characteristics

Zhaoyang Luo

Recession flow analysis based on the Boussinesq equation has been widely used to estimate hydraulic parameters of hillslope aquifers. However, previous studies mainly focused on homogeneous hillslope aquifers and showed that the recession curves satisfy th ...

2021

Effects of aquifer geometry on seawater intrusion in annulus segment island aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Zhaoyang Luo

Seawater intrusion in island aquifers was considered analytically, specifically for annulus segment aquifers (ASAs), i.e., aquifers that (in plan) have the shape of an annulus segment. Based on the Ghijben–Herzberg and hillslope-storage Boussinesq equation ...

2021

Watertable fluctuation-induced variability in the water retention curve: Sand column experiments

David Andrew Barry, Zhaoyang Luo

The soil water retention curve (WRC), describing the relation between the soil water content and its corresponding capillary pressure, relies not only on whether drying or wetting occurs but also on the pore scale water flow velocity. Here, we investigated ...

2020