Complex groundwater flow systems as traveling agent models
Fluid Dynamics
2015-02-23 v1 Geophysics
Abstract
Analyzing field data from pumping tests, we show that as with many other natural phenomena, groundwater flow exhibits a complex dynamics described by 1/f power spectrum. This result is theoretically studied within an agent perspective. Using a traveling agent model, we prove that this statistical behavior emerges when the medium is complex. Some heuristic reasoning is provided to justify both spatial and dynamic complexity, as the result of the superposition of an infinite number of stochastic processes. Even more, we show that this implies that non-Kolmogorovian probability is needed for its study, and provide a set of new partial differential equations for groundwater flow.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.0505,
title = {Complex groundwater flow systems as traveling agent models},
author = {Oliver López-Corona and Pablo Padilla and Oscar Escolero and Tomás González and Eric Morales-Casique},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0505},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
24 pages, 3 figures