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Pumping Test Analysis with a Handheld Calculator
Author(s) -
Rayner Frank A.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1980.tb03650.x
Subject(s) - calculator , minicomputer , test (biology) , mobile device , computer science , simple (philosophy) , test data , matching (statistics) , computer hardware , statistics , mathematics , operating system , geology , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
The time‐consuming curve construction and, in some cases, curve matching, and the gross approximations of aquifer geohydrologic properties, can be supplanted by a simple, speedy, accurate, and inexpensive analysis of pumping test data by a handheld programmable calculator. With such calculators—in actuality, minicomputers‐pumping test data can be analyzed within seconds, while the test is ongoing, and pumping test time and expense can be reduced, while still securing representative values for transmissivity and storage coefficients.