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Wedhe-shaped aquifer

Three types of boundary conditions are taken into account:

1) two recharge boundaries (Dirichlet);

2) two no-flow boundaries (Neumann);

3) combined (one recharge and one no-flow boundary).

 

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Schematic plan view of a wedge-shaped aquifer

 

Horizontal distances from the observation well to image wells

 

The following equations are used to evaluate the distance to image wells (n is the number of image wells):

 

References

Ferris J.G., Knowles D.B., Brown R.N., Stallman R.W. Theory of aquifer test // U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply. 1962. Paper1536-E.