A Computational Study of Pressure Driven Flow in Waste Rock Piles

• Main Author: Penney, Jared
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Porous Media; Waste Rock Piles; Acid Mine Drainage; Spectral Methods; Pressure Driven Flow; Finite Element Methods; Applied Mathematics; Diavik Diamond Mine; Northwest Territories; Rock Pile
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6937

This thesis is motivated by problems studied as part of the Diavik Waste Rock Pile Project. Located at the Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories, with academic support from the University of Waterloo, the University of Alberta, and the University of British Columbia, this project focuses...