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3b) Site 3, discharge area: ψ(32)dyn > d32 or, in general, ψ(xz)dyn > dxz . Therefore: p(xz)dyn = γst ψ(xz)dyn > γst dxz = p(xz)st . 3c) Accordingly, the wells of increasing depth in the areas of recharge, midline and discharge are terminated in parts of the basin where the fluid-potentials, respectively, decrease, remain constant and increase with depth (Fig. 2a). Thus it appears that in those, but only those, areas where the flow has a vertical component the dynamic pore pressures are different from what the pore pressures would be at the same place and depths if there were no flow.
In the lower corners of the flow field near-stagnant, or ‘quasi-stagnant’, conditions prevail. e. that it has no areal extent, the ratio of the area of recharge to the area of discharge is R/D ≈ 1. The physical meaning of the hydraulic-head distribution may be visualized by interpreting the potentiometric contours, h(x, z) = constant, in terms of elevations to which water would rise in vertical bore-holes from points, Px,z . These water levels can be determined by noting that the value of the hydraulic head in any point along a given contour line hi is equal to the elevation of the water table at its intersection with the specified contour: hi = hwt = z0 .
E. P(x ) (λ, t) = P(x ) (λ) then the relief of the water table will attenuate asymptotically to a steady state: H(x ) (λ, t) = H(x ) (λ, ∞) + H(x ) (λ, 0) − H(x ) (λ, ∞) exp − (2π/λ) (Kh Kv )ρg/n t . 12) H(x ) (λ, 0) is the height of the water table at time t = 0 and √ H(x ) (λ, ∞) = P(x ) (λ) /(2π/λ) (Kh Kv )ρg is the final, steady-state position of the water table. The characteristic time, which is defined as the time in which the water table has changed from initial elevation H(x ) (λ, a) to height H(x ) (λ, ∞) + {H(x ) (λ, t) − H(x ) (λ, ∞)}/e is then (Zijl, 1999, Eq.