Modelling the impact of underground structures on shallow aquifer systems

In densely populated cities, tall buildings are necessary to support their inhabitants and activities. In turn, these buildings require deep foundations for their construction. The purpose of this thesis is to study the impact of introducing deep foundation buildings on a shallow aquifer system. In order to achieve this, some simplified hypothetical models were created and tested by means of GReS software, developed by the University of Padova, which allows the implementation of the flow continuity equation within a finite volume system. In these tests, pressure was estimated by first modelling a soil free of buildings, and then adding buildings foundations to the model to evaluate the impact of their presence on the pressure distribution.