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AUTOMATED COMPUTATION OF PARAMETERS FOR LEAKY CONFINED AQUlFERS a
Author(s) -
Mukhopadhyay Amitabha
Publication year - 1988
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.1745-6584.1988.tb00416.x
Subject(s) - aquifer , computation , software , fortran , aquifer test , computer science , test data , data collection , leakage (economics) , software package , data processing , algorithm , computational science , geology , groundwater recharge , groundwater , statistics , mathematics , geotechnical engineering , database , operating system , programming language , economics , macroeconomics
. A FORTRAN program was developed to obtain the transmissivity, storage coefficient, and leakage factor for a leaky confined aquifer from pumping test data. The automated method computes the aquifer parameters faster and without bias when compared with the manual curvematching methods commonly used. Aquifer parameters obtained from published pumping test data using the software compare closely with those estimated by manual curve‐matching methods. The automated method cannot, however, detect the presence of recharge/discharge boundaries within the area of investigation or large deviations of data due to errors in data collection or data recording.