Hydraulic tests in highly permeable aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Butler Jr , James J ^a   Zhan, Xiaoyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Highly permeable aquifers; Pumping tests; Slug tests

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS;

CONFINED AQUIFERS; OBSERVATION WELLS; PUMPING WELLS; PUMPING-INDUCED RESPONSES;

AQUIFERS;

CONFINED AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PUMPING; SLUG TEST; TESTING METHOD;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 12544260300     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002998     Document Type: Article

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