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Quantitative Hydrogeology

This document discusses boundary conditions for groundwater flow equations. It explains different types of boundary conditions including specified head, specified flux, and conditions defined at infinity. It also notes the need to define initial conditions for transient state problems.

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Quantitative Hydrogeology

This document discusses boundary conditions for groundwater flow equations. It explains different types of boundary conditions including specified head, specified flux, and conditions defined at infinity. It also notes the need to define initial conditions for transient state problems.

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Section News (cont. from page 355)

de Marsily Receives
1994 Horton Award
The Robert E. Horton Award !or outstand­
ing contributions to the geophysical aspects
of hydrology was presented to Ghislain de
Marsily at the 1995 AGU Spring Meeting Hon­
ors Ceremony in Baltimore on May 30, 1995.
The award citation and de Marsily's response
are given here.

Citation
"By conferring the Horton Award on Ghis­
\2.in de Marsily, the Hydrology Section of
AGU and the larger hydrological community
i1.onors one of its distinguished members.
Though primarily a recognition ol the
achievements of an individual, the prize also
acknowledges the school of thought and the "Due to Ghislain, Fontainebleau has be­
-,,ific environment in which the recipient
come a place of pilgrimage for groundwater
142 6. Aquifer Systems

conditions. The boundary conditions are then prescribed at infinity without


any need to define their character.
This kind of situation is very often created when one looks for analytical
solutions to the diffusion equation, whereas numerical or analog methods are
better suited to cases where the boundary conditions are known at finite
distances. Examples will be given in other chapters.
(g) Initial conditions. It is worth remembering that for transient-state
problems (oh/ot i= 0, parabolic equation), it is also necessary to define the
initial conditions of the problem, i.e., the value of the hydraulic head h at all
points of the domain for t = 0.

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