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    Unconfined flow through an earth dam

    Application PLAXIS 2D
    PLAXIS 3D
    Version PLAXIS 2D
    PLAXIS 3D
    Date created 16 January 2013
    Date modified 16 January 2013

    This document verifies that groundwater flow principles are correctly implemented in PLAXIS. For that purpose, the water flow through an earth dam with drain in the downstream toe is studied. The flow in such a case is unconfined due to the unknown phreatic level and the unknown area of the seepage surface. This constitutes a problem which can be solved by the flow net method (Lambe & Whitman, 1979)

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    • PLAXIS 2D: 2018.00 | 2016.01 | 2015.02
    • PLAXIS 3D: 2018.00 | 2016.01 | AE.01

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    • Validation - Unconfined flow through an earth dam [2018].pdf
    • Validation - Unconfined flow through an earth dam [2D 2018.00].p2dxlog (command log file) Use Save as... to store
    • Validation - Unconfined flow through an earth dam [3D 2018.00].p3dlog (command log file) Use Save as... to store

    See also

    Triangular earth dam

    [Verifications]


    Unconfined flow through a sand layer

    [Verifications]

    • PLAXIS 3D
    • plaxflow
    • dam
    • unconfined
    • Groundwater
    • Whitman
    • PLAXIS
    • Flow
    • groundwaterflow
    • Lambe
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    • Micha van der Sloot Created by Bentley Colleague Micha van der Sloot
    • When: Wed, Dec 18 2019 10:21 AM
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    • When: Tue, Dec 24 2019 6:14 AM
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