Saturated-unsaturated flow to a well with storage in a compressible unconfined aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Mishra, Phoolendra Kumar ^a,b   Neuman, Shlomo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; AQUIFER PARAMETERS; CANADIAN FORCES BASE; CONSTITUTIVE PROPERTIES; EFFECTIVE SATURATION; NEUTRON ACCESS TUBES; ONTARIO , CANADA; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PARTIALLY PENETRATING WELLS; PIEZOMETER RESPONSE; PUMPING TESTS; PUMPING WELL; RADIAL DISTANCE; SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW; STATIC CONDITIONS; SYNTHETIC AQUIFERS; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO; UNSATURATED HYDRAULICS; UNSATURATED ZONE; VERTICAL FLOWS; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; TRANSDUCERS; WATER LEVELS; WELL PUMPS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AQUIFER; DIAMETER; DRAINAGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; LABORATORY METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIEZOMETER; WATER CONTENT; WATER TABLE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 79958050932     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010177     Document Type: Article

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