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This chapter provides analytical solutions describing the drawdown in isotropic confined nonleaky and leaky aquifers during a constant-head pumping test. The aquifer is of a constant thickness. The pumping and observation wells are fully penetrating. Three configurations of flow domains are considered: an aquifer of infinite lateral extent (Sect. 8.1), a circular aquifer (Sect. 8.2), and a radially heterogeneous aquifer (Sect. 8.3). For this type of testing, the drawdown in the observation well depends only on the aquifer hydraulic diffusivity and, in the case of leakage, on the leakage factor.
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Sindalovskiy, L.N. (2017). Constant-Head Tests. In: Aquifer Test Solutions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43409-4_8
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