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  • Hydrology: Groundwater hydrology
  • Mathematical Geophysics: General or miscellaneous

Abstract

WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH, VOL. 38, 1071, 7 PP., 2002
doi:10.1029/2001WR001091

An integral transform approach for a mixed boundary problem involving a flowing partially penetrating well with infinitesimal well skin

Chien-Chieh Chang

Institute of Applied Geology, National Central University, Chung-li, Taiwan

Chia-Shyun Chen

Institute of Applied Geology, National Central University, Chung-li, Taiwan

A flowing partially penetrating well with infinitesimal well skin is a mixed boundary because a Cauchy condition is prescribed along the screen length and a Neumann condition of no flux is stipulated over the remaining unscreened part. An analytical approach based on the integral transform technique is developed to determine the Laplace domain solution for such a mixed boundary problem in a confined aquifer of finite thickness. First, the mixed boundary is changed into a homogeneous Neumann boundary by substituting the Cauchy condition with a Neumann condition in terms of well bore flux that varies along the screen length and is time dependent. Despite the well bore flux being unknown a priori, the modified model containing this homogeneous Neumann boundary can be solved with the Laplace and the finite Fourier cosine transforms. To determine well bore flux, screen length is discretized into a finite number of segments, to which the Cauchy condition is reinstated. This reinstatement also restores the relation between the original model and the solutions obtained. For a given time, the numerical inversion of the Laplace domain solution yields the drawdown distributions, well bore flux, and the well discharge. This analytical approach provides an alternative for dealing with the mixed boundary problems, especially when aquifer thickness is assumed to be finite.

Published 12 June 2002.

Citation: Chang, C.-C., and C.-S. Chen (2002), An integral transform approach for a mixed boundary problem involving a flowing partially penetrating well with infinitesimal well skin, Water Resour. Res., 38(6), 1071, doi:10.1029/2001WR001091.

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