title: Capture zone of a multi-well system in bounded peninsula-shaped aquifers.
abstract: In this paper we present the equation of capture zone for multi-well system in peninsula-shaped confined and unconfined aquifers. The aquifer is rectangular in plan view, bounded along three sides, and extends to infinity at the fourth side. The bounding boundaries are either no-flow (impervious) or in-flow (constant head) so that aquifers with six possible boundary configurations are formed. The well system is consisted of any number of extraction or injection wells or combination of both with any flow rates. The complex velocity potential equations for such a well-aquifer system are derived to delineate the capture envelop. Solutions are provided for the aquifers with and without a uniform regional flow of any directions. The presented equations are of general character and have no limitations in terms of well numbers, positions and types, extraction/injection rate, and regional flow rate and direction. These solutions are presented in form of capture type curves which are useful tools in hands of practitioners to design in-situ groundwater remediation systems, to contain contaminant plumes, to evaluate the surface-subsurface water interaction and to verify numerical models.
authors: Department of Earth Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71454, Iran.
authors: Somayeh
authors: S
authors: Zarei-Doudeji
authors: Department of Earth Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71454, Iran; Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. Electronic address: Samani@susc.ac.ir.
authors: Nozar
authors: N
authors: Samani
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D052918:Environmental Restoration and Remediation; D060587:Groundwater; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014872:Water Movements; D060986:Water Wells
keywords: Bounded aquifers; Capture curves; Complex velocity potential; Groundwater remediation; Image well theory; Surface–subsurface water interaction; Uniform regional flow