A new method for the interpretation of pumping tests in leaky aquifers

Ground Water

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-143

  Trinchero, Paolo ^a   Sanchez Vila, Xavier ^a   Copty, Nadim ^b   Findikakis, Angelos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PUMPING PLANTS;

DOUBLE INFLECTION POINT (DIP); FLOW PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSIVITY;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PUMPING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TESTING METHOD; WATER STORAGE;

ARTICLE; PERMEABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERMEABILITY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 37549030179     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00384.x     Document Type: Article

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