Hydraulic potentials due to finite-length line source over an anisotropic aquifer system with inclined bedding planes

Water resources planning and management require estimation of seepage losses from surface water bodies like streams, rivers and canals to aquifer systems or recharge characteristics of aquifer systems. In such cases, numerical groundwater flow models are not quite capable of simulating flow in anisotropic aquifer systems with inclined planes of stratification. However, analytical results can be useful for simulating hydraulic heads/ flow in such systems. An analytical procedure for computing hydraulic heads in such a homogeneous anisotropic aquifer system due to a finite-length surface water source is presented. The procedure has been demonstrated using numerical experiments with the results as equipotential plots. Different coefficients of anisotropy, and orientation of bedding planes have been considered for the illustrations.