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A computer program (MACPUMP) for interactive aquifer-test analysis

October 1, 1995

This report introduces MACPUMP (Version 1.0), an aquifer-test-analysis package for use with Macintosh4 computers. The report outlines the input- data format, describes the solutions encoded in the program, explains the menu-items, and offers a tutorial illustrating the use of the program. The package reads list-directed aquifer-test data from a file, plots the data to the screen, generates and plots type curves for several different test conditions, and allows mouse-controlled curve matching. MACPUMP features pull-down menus, a simple text viewer for displaying data-files, and optional on-line help windows. This version includes the analytical solutions for nonleaky and leaky confined aquifers, using both type curves and straight-line methods, and for the analysis of single-well slug tests using type curves. An executable version of the code and sample input data sets are included on an accompanying floppy disk.

Publication Year 1995
Title A computer program (MACPUMP) for interactive aquifer-test analysis
DOI 10.3133/wri954012
Authors F. D. Day-Lewis, M.A. Person, Leonard F. Konikow
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series Number 95-4012
Index ID wri954012
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Toxic Substances Hydrology Program