Seepage Problems in Geotechnical Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 3 July 2026 | Viewed by 2815
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Interests: soil mechanics; in situ tests; soil microstructure
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Interests: rock mechanics; soil mechanics; tunnelling technology; ground improvement; carbon capture and storage; underground infrastructures
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Interests: geotechnical engineering; soil mechanics; special soil
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Interests: residual soil; weathered rock; structured clay; mudstone
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As an area of study, seepage mechanics is an important scientific discipline that focuses on the patterns of fluid flow in porous media and covers theoretical, experimental, numerical simulation, and other studies. Since its inception, it has found a wide range of applications in the development of geotechnical engineering, such as in landslides, groundwater, shale gas, geothermal energy, nuclear energy, and other projects. Meanwhile, researchers in the field of seepage mechanics have made great progress in the study of geological hazards, water loss and soil erosion, ground water pollution diffusion, biological–physical–chemical percolation, and other scientific and technological problems. However, this subject is facing new challenges in the fields of non-Darcy, non-Newtonian, nonlinear media, as well as in multi-scale, multi-phase, and multi-field percolation theory and their coupled effects. As a result, seepage problems have become a theoretical and applied foundation for scientific and technical fields of geotechnical engineering. Suggested topics related to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
- New progress, opportunities, and challenges of seepage problems;
- Seepage mechanics in geotechnical and hydraulic engineering;
- Seepages in conventional and unconventional energy;
- Seepage mechanics of rock and coal;
- Water loss and soil erosion;
- Dry shrinkage and cracking of soil;
- groundwater pollution percolation and and its countermeasures;
- Bioseepage mechanics;
- Heat and mass transfer analysis of porous media;
- Other fields related to geotechnical seepage.
Dr. Ran An
Prof. Dr. Yixian Wang
Dr. Xianwei Zhang
Dr. Xinyu Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seepage mechanics
- porous media
- soil and water conservation
- groundwater pollution percolation
- numerical simulation
- theoretical model
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