wellradpy 1.0.0

A Python package to calculate the radius of influence and radius of investigation of pumping wells.

WellRadPy

WellRadPy (Well Radius Python) is a Python package for calculating the radius of influence and radius of investigation of pumping wells. These quantities frequently need to be estimated in well hydraulics and aquifer testing.

There are various ways by which radius of influence and radius of investigation may be precisely defined. Accordingly, a large number of methods have been proposed for estimating radius of influence and radius of investigation. This package implements most of them.

Most methods are based on the Theis solution to pumping. Thus, the calculations rely on major simplifying assumptions: 2D (horizontal) confined flow, infinite domain, homogeneous hydraulic properties, single-porosity media, and fully-penetrating well.

A paper will (hopefully) soon be published with all the details.

Usage

WellRadPy is simple and its use is straightforward. The /examples directory in the GitHub repository contains a script where all the functions for calculating radius of influence and radius of investigation are exemplified.

Help can also be obtained by typing help(function_path) in the Python console.

Installation

For simple use

1. From the command line, type pip install wellradpy. This will download the latest release of the package from the PyPI repository and install it.

For development

1. Clone (or download) the sources from the GitHub repository.
2. From the project directory, type pip install -e .. This will install the current directory, so that you can both modify the package and use it at the same time.

Dependencies

WellRadPy depends on the Python packages NumPy and SciPy (>= 1.2.0). These will be automatically installed with any of the above installation methods.

Authors

• Etienne Bresciani (etiennebresciani)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License – see the LICENSE.txt file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Korea Ministry of Science and ICT through the Korea Research Fellowship program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (2016H1D3A1908042)
• Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) through the Future Research Program (2E29660)
• Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) through the Subsurface Environment Management (SEM) Project of the Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) (2018002440006)