Hydraulics of a partially penetrating well with skin zone in a confined aquifer

► An analytical model is developed for predicting flow into a partially penetrating well in a patchy confined aquifer underlain by an impervious barrier. ► The model takes into account flow through the bottom of the well, non-uniform flow at the well face, finite horizontal and vertical thickness of the aquifer and can also be reduced to include the mixed-type boundary condition at the well face.► The developed model can be utilized to estimate the hydraulic parameters of a confined aquifer by using results obtained from a typical pumping test.