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Flow Through - example 4

Problem Description

Non-dimensional Ratios:

Geometry
2a /B 0.5 Ratio of lake length to aquifer depth.
2a /LR 0.01 Ratio of lake length to regional length of aquifer.
LL /LR 0.5 Position of the lake within the regional setting, normalised by the regional length.
 
Aquifer Properties
KH /KV 1 Hydraulic conductivity anisotropy.
SoB 1.0E-05 Aquifer elastic storage coefficient.
Sy 0.3 Aquifer specific yield.
 
Boundary Fluxes
RLs /Rs 1 Ratio of average lake recharge to average aquifer recharge.
RLaSy /Ra 5 Ratio relating theamplitude of fluctuation in lake recharge to the amplitude of aquifer recharge.
q /P 0 The phase difference between the lake and aquifer recharges, normalised by the period.
 
System Response
LR2Sy /KHBP 5 Non-dimensional response time describing the ability of the lake-aquifer system to propagate periodic forcing applied at the boundaries.
RsLR2 /KHB2 0.25 A non-dimensional measure of the mean height of the regional groundwater mound above the groundwater level at the regional discharge boundary.
RaP /SyB 0.05 Ratio describing the size of potential fluctuation in advective flowpaths relative to the aquifer depth.

Near-Field Animation

Flow-through:

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