Numerical investigation of the river-groundwater interaction characteristics in the downstream desert of the Heihe River, China

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10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.231How to use a DOI?

Keywords

downstream desert; groundwater; river-groundwater interaction; evapotranspiration.

Abstract

The downstream is in the lower reaches of the Heihe River, northwestern China. The first step of the model development effort is to construct a groundwater flow model for the lower Heihe River. The software ‘ModelMuse’ is used to build and visualize the model for the downstream of Heihe River. A groundwater flow model was developed by MODFLOW-2005. The study area was simulated to research the river-groundwater interaction in the case of both evapotranspiration and no evapotranspiration, respectively. The results show that the river seeps into groundwater under the influence of evapotranspiration. The groundwater recharges the river without evapotranspiration.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - B.b. Wang
AU  - W.r. Huang
AU  - Y. Cai
AU  - F. Teng
AU  - Q. Zhou
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Numerical investigation of the river-groundwater interaction characteristics in the downstream desert of the Heihe River, China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1262
EP  - 1267
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.231
DO  - 10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.231
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