Groundwater Contamination for an aquifer
Built for students learning it for a class or exam. See the concept move instead of memorizing formulas — and check your homework intuition. Simulate an aquifer live below — adjust the inputs and watch it respond, right in your browser.
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Pumping a well lowers the water table into a cone of depression. Under the Thiem steady-state solution the drawdown is s(r) = Q/(2πT)·ln(R/r): more pumping deepens the cone, higher transmissivity flattens it. Fundamental to well design, water supply, and contaminant capture.
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Governing equation
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Given scattered measurements — rainfall gauges, soil samples, air-quality sensors — inverse-distance weighting estimates values everywhere in between. Each sample's influence falls off with distance raised to a power: a low power gives smooth, blended surfaces; a high power makes each sample dominate its neighborhood in sharp bull's-eyes. The workhorse of GIS mapping.
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Governing equation
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