Numerical modeling of groundwater inflow from a confined aquifer into Sangan open pit mine, Northeast Iran

Geomechanics and Geoengineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-199

  Aryafar, A ^a   Doulati Ardejani, F ^a   Singh, R N ^b  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confined aquifer; Finite element model; Groundwater inflow; Open pit mine; Sangan iron ore mine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874557476     PISSN: 17486025     EISSN: 17486033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17486020902919138     Document Type: Article

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