Dear Group Member

this will be more effective to our research project

Dr.R.C.Chhipa
*Centre for air & water Modalling
Gyan Vihar Universe, Mahal, Jagatpura, Jaipur -302 025
Website: www.gyanvihar.org ;
Email- chprcc@...



On Mon, 21 May 2007 CP.Kumar wrote :
>Dear Group Member,
>
>I am grateful to the following members/experts for
>their interesting/useful
>observations/comments/suggestions on my report
>"Modelling of a Coastal Aquifer using FEFLOW"
>(available at ftp://ftp.wasy.de/FEFLOW/Goa.pdf ).
>
>(1) Reinhard Zapata (Waterloo Hydrogeologic, Canada)
>(2) Krishnaiah C. (India)
>(3) S.V.N.Rao (Roorkee, India)
>(4) V.V.S. Gurunadha Rao (Hyderabad, India)
>(5) Michael Jorgensen (Australia)
>
>I am prompted to seek further suggestions for the
>following issues in modelling the seawater intrusion
>in coastal aquifers.
>
>(a) How to model the effect of salt pans on
>groundwater in coastal areas?
>
>(b) How to incorporate the evaporation from open water
>surfaces (e.g. to define time-variant boundary
>condition in case of rivers) and evaporation from
>shallow groundwater table?
>
>(c) How to model the effect of brackish water in
>rivers (due to tidal backwater effect from sea) on
>groundwater in coastal areas?
>
>(d) How to develop correlation between resistivity
>values and TDS and between resistivity values and
>hydraulic conductivity.
>
>(e) Suitability of Kriging, Akima and Inverse Distance
>Weighting techniques for interpolation/regionalization
>of different parameters/variables.
>
>Any suggestions for the above will be helpful for
>extension of this (or similar) study in future.
>
>There is a small errata in the report - title of
>figure 7 may be read as "Measured Values of Hydraulic
>Conductivity (*10E-4 m/s)" - the multiplier was
>missing.
>
>Regards
>Kumar
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>C. P. KUMAR
>Scientist 'E1'
>National Institute of Hydrology
>Jal Vigyan Bhawan
>Roorkee - 247667 (Uttarakhand)
>INDIA
>
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