Journal article

Publication year: 2021

Journal: Geosciences

Volume number: 11

Issue number: 2

eISSN: 2076-3263

Open access status: Gold

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11020041

Publisher: MDPI

Abstract: 
A variety of studies recently proved the applicability of different dried, fine-grained dredged materials as replacement material for erosion-resistant sea dike covers. In Rostock, Germany, a large-scale field experiment was conducted, in which different dredged materials were tested with regard to installation technology, stability, turf development, infiltration, and erosion resistance. The infiltration experiments to study the development of a seepage line in the dike body showed unexpected measurement results. Due to the high complexity of the problem, standard geo-hydraulic models proved to be unable to analyze these results. Therefore, different methods of inverse infiltration modeling were applied, such as the parameter estimation tool (PEST) and the AMALGAM algorithm. In the paper, the two approaches are compared and discussed. A sensitivity analysis proved the presumption of a non-linear model behavior for the infiltration problem and the Eigenvalue ratio indicates that the dike infiltration is an ill-posed problem. Although this complicates the inverse modeling (e.g., termination in local minima), parameter sets close to an optimum were found with both the PEST and the AMALGAM algorithms. Together with the field measurement data, this information supports the rating of the effective material properties of the applied dredged materials used as dike cover material.

Harvard Citation style: Jurisch, T., Cantre, S. and Saathoff, F. (2021) Inverse Infiltration Modeling of Dike Covers Made of Dredged Material Using PEST and AMALGAM, Geosciences, 11(2), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11020041

APA Citation style: Jurisch, T., Cantre, S., & Saathoff, F. (2021). Inverse Infiltration Modeling of Dike Covers Made of Dredged Material Using PEST and AMALGAM. Geosciences. 11(2), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11020041