Tests on several scales were analyzed and conducted in a dolomite aquifer of southeastern Wisconsin to examine the variation of hydraulic conductivity and longitudinal dispersivity with scale of measurement. Scale behavior of hydraulic conductivity was shown to be dependent on the hydrofacies. In vuggy fades dominated by porous flow hydraulic conductivity increased relative to scale linearly wi...

We present a semi-analytical solution for the transient streaming potential response of a confined aquifer to pumping at a constant rate through a fully-penetrating line sink. Confined aquifer flow is assumed to occur without fluid leakage from the confining units and is thus described by the solution of Theis (1935). The confining units, which are typically more electrically conductive than th...

Planning for use of a dune field aquifer for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) requires that hydraulic properties need to be estimated over a large geographic area. Saturated hydraulic conductivity of dune sands is commonly estimated from grain size distribution data by employing some type of empirical equation. Over 50 samples from the Wadi Khulays dune field in Western Saudi Arabia were collecte...

A physically based inverse method is developed using hybrid formulation and coordinate transform to simultaneously estimate hydraulic conductivity tensors, steady-state flow field, and boundary conditions for a confined aquifer under ambient flow or pumping condition. Unlike existing indirect inversion techniques, the physically based method does not require forward simulations to assess model-...

An integrated surface geophysical pilot study at the Texas A&M University Brazos River Hydrologic Field Research Site (BRHFRS), College Station, Texas, was done to determine the effectiveness of methods for defining the hydrostratigraphic framework and hydrogeologic properties for a ground-water availability model. Time-domain electromagnetic (TDEM) soundings and direct-current (2D–DC) resistiv...

Slug test data obtained from tests performed in an unconfined aquifer are commonly analyzed by graphical or numerical approaches to determine the aquifer parameters. This paper derives three fourth-degree polynomials to represent the relationship between Bouwer and Rice's coefficients and the ratio of the screen length to the radius of the gravel envelope. A numerical approach using the nonline...

To describe flow or transport phenomena in porous media, relations between aquifer hydraulic conductivity and effective porosity can prove useful, avoiding the need to perform expensive and time consuming measurements. The practical applications generally require the determination of this parameter at field scale, while most of the empirical and semiempirical formulas, based on grain size analy...

Vulnerability assessment to delineate areas that are more susceptible to contamination from anthropogenic sources has become an important element for sensible resource management and land use planning. This contribution aims at estimating aquifer vulnerability by applying the DRASTIC model as well as utilizing sensitivity analyses to evaluate the relative importance of the model parameters for ...