Demonstration Exercises and Benchmark Tests

This section will explore many features of AquiferTest including various single and multiple pumping well solution methods, importing data from MS-Excel and a datalogger file (.ASC), and planning a pumping test. The functionality of each feature is explained in detail in the following exercises:

•Exercise 1: Confined Aquifer - Theis Analysis

•Exercise 2: Leaky Aquifer - Hantush - Jacob Analysis

•Exercise 3: Recovery Data Analysis - Agarwal Solution

•Exercise 4: Confined Aquifer, Multiple Pumping Wells

•Exercise 5: Adding Data Trend Correction

•Exercise 6: Adding Barometric Correction

•Exercise 7: Slug Test Analysis - Bouwer & Rice

•Exercise 8: High-K Butler Method

•Exercise 9: Derivative Smoothing

•Exercise 10: Horizontal Wells

•Exercise 11: Wellbore Storage and Skin Effects

•Exercise 12: Lugeon Test Analysis

•Exercise 13: Multi-Layer Aquifer Analysis

•Exercise 14: Slug Test Analysis - Binkhorst and Robbins

An additional 19 Benchmarking Examples are also available for reference and review purposes.

These exercises are designed to help you familiarize yourself with various functions of the program, but also to provide you with comparisons of the results obtained from AquiferTest to some other sources including published references.

The general sequence of a typical AquiferTest session is:

[1] Open or create a project

[2] Enter and/or import well information and related test data

[3] Select an analysis method

[4] Fit the type curve

[5] Print the output

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