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6581753 
Book/Book Chapter 
Chapter 5: Analytic element modeling 
Haitjema, HM 
1995 
Academic Press 
San Diego, CA 
Analytic element modeling of groundwater flow 
203-305 
English 
is related to other part(s) 6581758 Chapter 3: Dupuit—Forchheimer flow
This chapter draws heavily on building the theoretical framework for a mathematical description of groundwater flow. In the process numerous practical problems are solved. A recharge area or aquifer in homogeneity, for instance, is taken to be circular, and the problem of a well near a stream is approximated by modeling a well opposite an infinitely long equipotential line. Although many of the solutions serve useful educational purposes, they are not very convincing representations of groundwater flow in regional aquifers with, among others, complex stream networks, wetlands, and varying areal recharge rates and transmissivities. It is true that there exist many more analytic solutions to groundwater flow than are presented in this text, and some of them are very ingenious. By themselves, however, they all share the limitation of a relatively simple hydrogeological setting. 
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