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Analytical investigation of the exact groundwater divide between rivers beyond the Dupuit–Forchheimer approximation
Hydrological Processes ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 , DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14036 Ruoyi Li 1 , Xu‐Sheng Wang 1, 2
Hydrological Processes ( IF 2.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 , DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14036 Ruoyi Li 1 , Xu‐Sheng Wang 1, 2
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The groundwater divide is a key feature of river basins and significantly influenced by subsurface hydrological processes. For an unconfined aquifer between two parallel rivers or ditches, it has long been defined as the top of the water table based on the Dupuit–Forchheimer approximation. However, the exact groundwater divide is subject to the interface between two local flow systems transporting groundwater to rivers from the infiltration recharge. This study contributes a new analytical model for two‐dimensional groundwater flow between rivers of different water levels. The flownet is delineated in the model to identify groundwater flow systems and the exact groundwater divide. Formulas with two dimensionless parameters are derived to determine the distributed hydraulic head, the top of the water table and the groundwater divide. The locations of the groundwater divide and the top of the water table are not the same. The distance between them in horizontal can reach up to 8.9% of the distance between rivers. Numerical verifications indicate that simplifications in the analytical model do not significantly cause misestimates in the location of the groundwater divide. In contrast, the Dupuit–Forchheimer approximation yields an incorrect water table shape. The new analytical model is applied to investigate groundwater divides in the Loess Plateau, China, with a Monte Carlo simulation process taking into account the uncertainties in the parameters.
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