Coupled Solution for Forced Recharge in Confined Aquifers
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 14, Issue 12
Abstract
Analytical solutions for forced well recharge currently in use were initially developed for pumping scenarios and applied for recharge cases assuming that radial flow in the recharge well replicates a mirror image of that in to a pumping well. Moreover these solutions were not extended to multiaquifer systems. Well bore numerical solutions were generally not considering the effect of well bore interaction, which has a significant effect in the case of a recharge well. In the present paper, improved analytical solutions are developed for a well fully penetrating either single or multiaquifers in respect to of well storage, well loss, and interactions between the individual aquifers through well bore. The solution developed for constant and variable rates of injection and well loss is applied to the experimental data of the Hansol well injection project near the city of Ahmedabad in the Gujarat state in India. The paper also discusses the difference in well hydraulics of recharge and recovery wells.
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 14 • Issue 12 • December 2009
Pages: 1351 - 1358
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Received: Mar 30, 2006
Accepted: Aug 3, 2009
Published online: Nov 13, 2009
Published in print: Dec 2009
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