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The Effects of Boundary Conditions on the Steady-State Response of Three Hypothetical Ground-Water Systems -- Results and Implications of Numerical Experiments

U.S. Geological Survey, Water Supply Paper 2315

by O. Lehn Franke, and Thomas E. Reilly


Table of Contents

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Abstract

Introduction

Description of three hypothetical ground-water systems

Effects of boundary conditions on the steady-state response of the three hypothetical ground-water systems

Description of numerical experiments

Results of numerical experiments

Series A experiments

Series B experiments 5

Series C experiments 6

Implications of numerical experiments for simulation of ground-water systems

Model calibration

Solute transport analysis

Effects of stress magnitude

Summary and conclusions

References cited

Appendix 1 . Comparison of the governing differential equations and boundary conditions that apply to the three hypothetical ground-water systems analyzed in this report

Series A and B experiments

Series C experiments

Appendix 2. Application of the principle of superposition as an aid in analyzing the relation between boundary conditions and the response of the three ground-water systems to stress


 

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