Radial groundwater flow to a finite diameter well in a leaky confined aquifer with a finite-thickness skin

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 3382-3390

  Yang, Shaw Yang ^a   Yeh, Hund Der ^b  

^a VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Laplace transforms; Leaky confined aquifer; Sensitivity analysis; Skin effect

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER SYSTEMS; AQUITARDS; CONFINED AQUIFER SYSTEM; CONFINED AQUIFERS; CONSTANT THICKNESS; FINITE-THICKNESS SKIN; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; LAPLACE DOMAINS; LEAKY CONFINED AQUIFER; PUMPING TIME; SKIN THICKNESS; STORAGE COEFFICIENT; TIME DOMAIN SOLUTION; TRANSMISSIVITY; WELL RADIUS; WELLBORE;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUMPS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN; WATER WELLS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHM; AQUITARD; CONFINED AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 70549111356     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7449     Document Type: Article

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