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Analytical solutions of travel time to a pumping well with variable evapotranspiration
Tian-Fei Chen1, Xu-Sheng Wang, Li Wan
1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Groundwater Circulation and Evolution, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China; chentianfei1987@126.com.
Abstract:
Analytical solutions of groundwater travel time to a pumping well in an unconfined aquifer have been developed in previous studies, however, the change in evapotranspiration was not considered. Here, we develop a mathematical model of unconfined flow toward a discharge well with redistribution of groundwater evapotranspiration for travel time analysis. Dependency of groundwater evapotranspiration on the depth to water table is described using a linear formula with an extinction depth. Analytical solutions of groundwater level and travel time are obtained. For a typical hypothetical example, these solutions perfectly agree with the numerical simulation results based on MODFLOW and MODPATH. As indicated in a dimensionless framework, a lumped parameter which is proportional to the pumping rate controls the distributions of groundwater evapotranspiration rate and the travel time along the radial direction.
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