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Zlotnik & Zhan 2005
Zlotnik, V.A. and Zhan, H. (2005). Aquitard effect on drawdown in water table aquifers. Water Resources Research 41: doi: 10.1029/2004WR003716. issn: 0043-1397.

The effects of an aquitard on drawdown in an overlying unconfined aquifer can be represented by a drainage-type term at the aquitard-aquifer interface. The functional form of this boundary condition is similar to the Boulton-Neuman boundary condition used for water table aquifers except the kernel contains an inverse square root of time instead of a negative exponential. Type curves using the new boundary condition were obtained in semianalytical form. Examples for several representative conditions show that the effect of the underlying aquitard can contribute to the type curve at early and intermediate times, but the effect becomes negligible at late times.

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Hydrology, Groundwater hydraulics, Hydrology, Groundwater hydrology, Hydrology, Modeling, unconfined aquifer, aquitard, diffusivity, delayed drainage, kernel
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Water Resources Research
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