Upscaling transmissivity under radially convergent flow in heterogeneous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 613-621

  Sánchez Vila, Xavier ^a   Axness, Carl L ^b   Carrera, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIAL FLOW;

THIEM EQUATION; TRANSMISSIVITY FUNCTION;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; DRAWDOWN; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 0033104649     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998wr900056     Document Type: Article

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