Practical approximations of the well function

Ground Water

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 844-848

  Srivastava, Rajesh ^a   Guzman Guzman, Amado ^a  

^a Water Management Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

CONFINED AQUIFERS; WELL FUNCTION;

AQUIFERS;

EID: 0032168149     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb02203.x     Document Type: Article

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