Estimation of effective aquifer hydraulic properties from an aquifer test with multi-well observations (Taiwan)

Hydrogeology Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1143-1155

  Wen, Jet Chau ^a   Wu, Cheng Mau ^a,b   Yeh, Tian Chyi J ^c,d   Tseng, Chung Ming ^e  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anisotropic transmissivity; Groundwater hydraulics; Heterogeneity; Multi well system; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DRAWDOWN; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; HYDROGEOLOGY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NONLINEARITY; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER STORAGE; WELLHEAD;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77954718049     PISSN: 14312174     EISSN: 14350157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-010-0577-1     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Batu V (1998) Aquifer hydraulics: a comprehensive guide to hydrogeologic data analysis. Wiley, New York.
2. Boulton NS (1954) Unsteady radial flow to a pumping well allowing for delayed yield from storage. Int Assoc Sci Hydrol 37: 472-477.
3. Butler JJ Jr (1990) The role of pumping tests in site characterization: some theoretical considerations. Ground Water 23(3): 394-402.
4. Butler JJ Jr, Liu W (1993) Pumping tests in non-uniform aquifers: the radially axisymmetric case. Water Resour Res 29(2): 259-269.
5. Cooper HH Jr, Jacob CE (1946) A generalized graphical method for evaluating formation constants and summarizing well-field history. Eos Trans AGU 7(4): 526-534.
6. Hantush MS (1956) Analysis of data from pumping tests in leaky aquifer. Trans Am Geophys Union 37: 702-714.
7. Hantush MS, Thomas RG (1966) A method for analyzing a drawdown test in anisotropic aquifers. Water Resour Res 2(2): 281-285.
8. Heilweil VM, Hsieh PA (2006) Determining anisotropic transmissivity using a simplified Papadopoulos method. Ground Water. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1754-6584. 2006. 00210.
9. Hsieh PA, Neuman SP (1985) Field determination of the three-dimensional hydraulic conductivity tensor of anisotropic media, 1: theory. Water Resour Res 21(11): 1655-1665.
10. Hsieh PA, Neuman SP, Stiles GK, Simpson ES (1985) Field determination of the three-dimensional hydraulic conductivity tensor of anisotropic media, 2: methodology and application to fractured rocks. Water Resour Res 21(11): 1667-1676.
11. Illman WA, Neuman SP (2001) Type-curve interpretation of a cross-hole pneumatic test in unsaturated fractured tuff. Water Resour Res 37(3): 583-604.
12. Illman WA, Neuman SP (2003) Steady-state analyses of cross-hole pneumatic injection tests in unsaturated fractured tuff. J Hydrol 281(1-2): 36-54.
13. Illman WA, Tartakovsky DM (2006) Asymptotic analysis of cross-hole hydraulic tests in fractured granite. Ground Water 44(4): 555-563.
14. Illman WA, Liu X, Craig A (2007) Steady-state hydraulic tomography in a laboratory aquifer with deterministic heterogeneity: multi-method and multiscale validation of K tomograms. J Hydrol 341(3-4): 222-234.
15. Jiao JJ, Rushton KR (1995) Sensitivity of drawdown to parameters and its influence on parameter estimation for pumping tests in large-diameter wells. Ground Water 33(5): 794-800.
16. Kern JW, Dobson CW (1998) Determination of variation for maximum and minimum transmissivities of anisotropic aquifers from multiple well pumping test data. Ground Water 36(3): 457-464.
17. Leven C, Dietrich P (2006) What information can we get from pumping tests? Comparing pumping test configurations using sensitivity coefficients. J Hydrol 319: 199-215.
18. Liu X, Illman WA, Craig AJ, Zhu J, Yeh T-CJ (2007) Laboratory sandbox validation of transient hydraulic tomography. Water Resour Res 43(5): W05404.
19. McElwee CD, Yukler MA (1978) Sensitivity of groundwater models with respect to variations in transmissivity and storage. Water Resour Res 14(3): 451-459.
20. Meier PM, Carrera J, Sanchz-Vila X (1998) An evaluation of Jacob's method for interpretation of pumping tests in heterogeneous formations. Water Resour Res 34(5): 1011-1025.
21. Moench AF (1997) Flow to a well of finite diameter in a homogeneous, anisotropic water table aquifer. Water Resour Res 33(6): 1397-1408. doi: 10. 1029/97WR00651.
22. Mutch RD (2005) A distance-drawdown aquifer test method for aquifers with areal anisotropy. Ground Water. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1745-6584. 2005. 00105.
23. Neuman SP (1972) Theory of flow in unconfined aquifers considering delayed response of the water table. Water Resour Res 8(4): 1031-1045.
24. Neuman SP, Walter GR, Bentley HW, Ward JJ, Gonzalez DD (1984) Determination of horizontal anisotropy with three wells. Ground Water 22: 66-72.
25. Oliver DS (1993) The influence of nonuniform transmissivity and storativity on drawdown. Water Resour Res 29(1): 169-178.
26. Papadopoulos IS (1965) Nonsteady flow to a well in an infinite anisotropic aquifer. In: Proceedings of International Association of Scientific Hydrology, Dubrovnik Symposium on the Hydrology of Fractured Rocks, Paris, September 1965, pp 21-31.
27. Schad H, Teutsch G (1994) Effects of the investigation scale on pumping test results in heterogeneous porous aquifers. J Hydrol 159: 61-77.
28. Straface S, Yeh T-CJ, Zhu J, Troisi S, Lee CH (2007) Sequential aquifer tests at a well field, Montalto Uffugo Scalo, Italy. Water Resour Res 43, W07432. doi: 10. 1029/2006WR005287.
29. Way SH, McKee CR (1982) In-situ determination of three dimensional aquifer permeabilities. Ground Water 20(5): 594-603.
30. Wu C-M, Yeh T-CJ, Lee TH, Hsu N-S, Chen C-H, Sancho AF (2005) Traditional aquifer tests: comparing apples to oranges? Water Resour Res 41, W09402. doi: 10. 1029/2004WR003717.
31. Yeh T-CJ, Lee C-H (2007) Time to change the way we collect and analyze data for aquifer characterization. Ground Water 45(2): 116-118.