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.

Ground Water
|May 29, 2013
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