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Steady State Flow around Wells in Aquifers with Hydraulic Conductivity Varying with Depth
Author(s) -
Youngs E. G.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr007i005p01366
Subject(s) - aquifer , hydraulic conductivity , geology , flow (mathematics) , hydrology (agriculture) , series (stratigraphy) , geotechnical engineering , steady state (chemistry) , stream function , soil science , groundwater , mechanics , mathematics , geometry , chemistry , physics , soil water , paleontology , vorticity , vortex
In the two recent studies on the steady state flow around wells in a two‐layered aquifer [ Khan et al ., 1971] and on the spacing of drainage wells in a layered aquifer [ Khan and Kirkham , 1971], the potential and stream functions were obtained in the form of summation series. To obtain these functions, the use of a physical artifice was required. However, some of the more important aspects of these problems, but not the potential and stream functions, may be obtained very simply without recourse to simplifying assumptions by following the method first used by Charnyi [1951] to calculate flows to wells and through vertically sided dams and later developed by Youngs [1965, 1966 b ] to obtain horizontal seepage rates in aquifers with hydraulic conductivity varying with depth. The use of this general method in seepage studies has been explored further in a number of different situations [ Youngs , 1966 a , 1967, 1971 a , b ].