Step-drawdown tests and the Forchheimer equation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Mathias, Simon A ^a   Todman, Lindsay C ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION RATES; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; CONSTANT RATE; EMPIRICAL EXPRESSION; FIELD SCALE; FORCHHEIMER EQUATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; QUASI-STEADY STATE; WELL RADIUS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AQUIFERS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIELDWORK; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUMPING; WELL;

EID: 77955188915     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008635     Document Type: Article

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