A Steady-State Model to Simulate Groundwater Flow in Unconfined Aquifer

A new package in MODFLOW to simulate unconfined groundwater flow in sloping aquifers.

The nonhorizontal-model-layer (NHML) grid system is more accurate than the horizontal-model-layer grid system to describe groundwater flow in an unconfined sloping aquifer on the basis of MODFLOW-2000. However, the finite-difference scheme of NHML was based on the Dupuit-Forchheimer assumption that the streamlines were horizontal, which was acceptable for slope less than 0.10. In this study, we...

Groundwater flow to a horizontal or slanted well in an unconfined aquifer

[1] New semianalytical solutions for evaluation of the drawdown near horizontal and slanted wells with finite length screens in unconfined aquifers are presented. These fully three-dimensional solutions consider instantaneous drainage or delayed yield and aquifer anisotropy. As a basis, solution for the drawdown created by a point source in a uniform anisotropic unconfined aquifer is derived in...

Steady-State Unconfined Aquifer Simulation of the Gareh-Bygone Plain, Iran Steady-State Unconfined Aquifer Simulation Hashemi, Hossein; Berndtsson, Ronny; Kompani-Zare, Mazda

The first step of aquifer parameter and dependent variable estimation based on hydraulic modeling is generally to choose the best steady-state condition for the set time period. In order to define the best estimated hydraulic conductivity and boundary condition for Gareh-Bygone Plain in arid southern Iran, ten different steady-state conditions were simulated and calibrated with limited field ob...

Groundwater Flow in a Compressible Unconfined Aquifer with Uniform Circular Recharge

Atangana-Baleanu derivative with fractional order applied to the model of groundwater within an unconfined aquifer

The power law has been used to construct the derivative with fractional order in Caputo and RiemannLiouville sense, if we viewed them as a convolution. However, it is not always possible to find the power law behaviour in nature. In 2016 Abdon Atangana and Dumitru Baleanu proposed a derivative that is based upon the generalized Mittag-Leffler function, since the Mittag-Leffler function is more ...