Leaky One-Dimensional Flow with Storage and Skin Effect in Finite-Width Sink
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 128, Issue 5
Abstract
One-dimensional horizontal flow in a semiinfinite confined aquifer can be described in terms of mathematical solutions that relate drawdown in the aquifer to aquifer parameters and flow into or out of a line sink. A new solution that considers the effects of a low-permeability skin along with storage in a finite-width sink is developed for the leaky-aquifer case. A coefficient is defined to represent the skin effect for one-dimensional flow. The transient solution, which is obtained by inverting the Laplace-space solution using the Stehfest numerical algorithm, calculates drawdowns in the sink as well as in the aquifer. A nondimensional drain function is defined based on the solution. Selected type curves for the drain function are plotted, and a match-point procedure is described that is based on matching observed drawdowns at observation wells to an appropriate type curve. The match-point procedure is illustrated by fitting simulated drawdown data to a type curve and determining the aquifer parameters. The drawdown solution is also represented by dimensional time–drawdown plots, which can be used to determine aquifer parameters by adjusting the parameters until model-calculated drawdowns match observed values. This new solution can be used to analyze drawdowns that result from a canal pumping test in which the discharge from the canal is derived from water stored in the canal and from a leaky aquifer and in which the drawdowns are affected by storage and a low-permeability skin in the canal.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 128 • Issue 5 • October 2002
Pages: 298 - 304
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Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Sep 5, 2001
Accepted: Jan 3, 2002
Published online: Sep 13, 2002
Published in print: Oct 2002
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