Response of well aquifer systems to Earth tides: Problem revisited
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Abstract
Two recent works cause us to reexamine Bredehoeft's (1967) analysis of earthtide response of water wells. Narasimhan et al. (1984) raise several questions regarding Bredehoeft's (1967) analysis and suggest that the analysis is internally inconsistent. They argue that one cannot directly estimate the specific storage, which characterizes the drained behavior of a porous medium, from earth tide response, which is an undrained phenomenon. We resolve the questions raised by Narasimhan et al. (1984) and show that Bredehoeft's analysis is internally consistent. In addition, we show that it is possible to determine the specific storage from undrained loading. While Bredehoeft's analysis is somewhat heuristic and neglects grain compressibility, Van der Kamp and Gale (1983) present a more rigorous analysis that is based on Biot's (1941) constitutive relationships and accounts for grain compressibility. However, their results reduce to Bredehoeft's results when grains are assumed incompressible. This suggests that Bredehoeft's analysis has incorporated all the essential features of Biot's relationships except for grain compressibility. Upon reexamining Bredehoeft's analysis we find that this is indeed the case.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Response of well aquifer systems to Earth tides: Problem revisited |
| Series title | Water Resources Research |
| DOI | 10.1029/WR024i003p00468 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1988 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
| Description | 5 p. |
| First page | 468 |
| Last page | 472 |
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