Earth
Groundwater: pumping reshapes the flow
Explore a confined aquifer with recharge, a pumping well and a low-permeability barrier using a conservative field solver.
Try this
Increase pumping and watch the depression around the well. Toggle the barrier and compare the flow paths.
The model and its limits
Two-dimensional confined-aquifer head diffusion with fixed boundary heads. One simulation second represents 0.025 days. Colours show head; arrows show Darcy flux. Not a site-specific well model.
Equations used in the module
Equations S dh/dt = div(T grad(h)) + recharge - pumping q = -T grad(h)
