Evaluation of Traditional and Nontraditional Optimization Techniques for Determining Well Parameters from Step-Drawdown Test Data

Adequate knowledge of the hydraulic characteristics of production wells is indispensable for the proper development and management of wells and for the selection of suitable pumps. In this study, the characteristic hydraulic parameters of production wells were determined by the widely used graphical analysis of step-drawdown pumping test data as well as the two traditional gradient-based nonlinear optimization techniques (viz., Levenberg–Marquardt and Gauss–Newton) and the nontraditional optimization technique, genetic algorithm. Three stand-alone and interactive computer programs were developed to optimize the hydraulic parameters of production wells by these numerical techniques. The efficacy and robustness of the developed computer codes were examined using eleven sets of step-drawdown data from diverse hydrogeologic conditions. The results of this study revealed that all the three numerical techniques yielded superior well parameters with lower values of root-mean-square errors (RMSE) for all the elev...

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