Effect of wellbore storage and finite thickness skin on flow to a partially penetrating well in a phreatic aquifer

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 383-398

  Pasandi, M ^a   Samani, N ^a   Barry, D A ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analytical solution; Ground water; Laplace transform; Pumping test; Unsteady flow

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UNSTEADY FLOW; WATER WELLS;

PENETRATING WELL; PHREATIC AQUIFER; PUMPING TEST; WELLBORE STORAGE;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UNSTEADY FLOW; WATER WELLS;

AQUIFER; DRAWDOWN; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHREATIC ZONE; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 37149008111     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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