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The papers trace a progression from analytical well hydraulics to delayed-response interpretation, transformation uncertainty, and groundwater-influenced energy decisions.

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transformation uncertainty

A Spatially-Coherent Attribution Framework for Interpreting Black-Box Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts

Ying-Fan Lin* and Shiu-Shin Lin*

The method maps which places and forecast times most influence a tropical-cyclone intensity prediction, helping researchers judge whether the model relies on physically sensible signals.

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment · Published

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subsurface energy student-involved work

Analytical Modeling of Grout Heat Storage Effects in Thermal Response Tests: Toward Faster and More Reliable Parameter Estimation

Hsiang-Wen Wang; Ying-Fan Lin*; Chia-Hao Chang; Bo-Tsen Wang; Hikari Fujii; Yu-Feng Forrest Lin; Kuo-Hsin Yang; Jui-Pin Tsai*

The analysis keeps grout heat storage in a thermal response test and separates early-time grout effects from later-time ground-conductivity information.

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering · Published

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lagging theory

Lagging Theory for Periodic Hydraulic Head Signals in Aquifers

Ying-Fan Lin*; Barret L. Kurylyk

Two groundwater processes can respond at different rates. Accounting for both reconciles the observed amplitude attenuation and phase shift of periodic head signals at the two field sites.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Reply to the Comment by Anderson and Bakker on ``Faulty Assumptions: Groundwater Modeling Through Anisotropic Fault Zones'' by Lin and Lin (2025)

Jun-Hong Lin, Ying-Fan Lin*

A simplified fault interface reproduces the full two-dimensional drawdown closely for most tested conditions when the fault is not too wide, making it useful for rapid analysis.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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transformation uncertainty

Simplified Theoretical Analyses of Lagging Darcy Flow and Land Subsidence in a Groundwater Pumping System of Three Horizontal Layers: An Elastic Thin Plate Approach

Jun-Hong Lin, Chih-Yu Liu, Chien-Chung Ke, Ying-Fan Lin*

Pumping-induced pressure changes at the two sites are predicted to bend the overlying formation by less than routine geodetic instruments can detect.

Advances in Water Resources · Published

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transformation uncertainty

Rethinking Aquifer Characterization: Insights from Lagging Models

Ying-Fan Lin*, Te-Hsing Chang

At the tested sites, allowing groundwater flux and hydraulic gradient to adjust at different rates improved the pumping-test interpretation and changed the inferred response times.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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lagging theory

Integrating Stream Storage and Lagging Effects in Analytical Models for Stream Depletion Prediction

Ying-Fan Lin, Bwalya Malama, Meng-Yu Lin*

A stream does not supply a pumping well instantly or indefinitely. Including finite stream storage and delayed exchange improves the field interpretation, especially for smaller streams and certain time periods.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Image-Well Solution for Island Aquifers with Pumping, Recharge, and Complex Coastlines

Ying-Fan Lin∗, Barret L. Kurylyk∗, Adrian D. Werner, Chih-Yu Liu, Cristina Solórzano-Rivas, Jun-Hong Lin

This analytical solution uses image wells to represent pumping, recharge, and coastline geometry in island aquifers.

Advances in Water Resources · Published

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subsurface energy

On Radial Heat Transport in Porous Aquifers with Nonlinear Velocity-dependent Thermal Dispersion

Wenguang Shi, Quanrong Wang, Ying-Fan Lin, Aohan Jin, Yingfan Zhao, Yanxin Wang, Chong Ma

In two field tests, allowing thermal dispersion to increase with groundwater velocity gave a more realistic account of heat movement than a constant-dispersion model.

Water Resources Research · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Faulty Assumptions: Groundwater Modeling Through Anisotropic Fault Zones

Jun-Hong Lin, Ying-Fan Lin*

A compact fault model represents both resistance through the fault core and rapid flow along fractured damage zones.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Analytical Framework for Fast Identification of Hydrogeological Boundaries and Aquifer Parameters in Confined Aquifers

Fu-Kuo Huang, Ying-Fan Lin*, Hund-Der Yeh*, Grace S. Wang

Using drawdown from several observation wells, the method recovered a nearby hydraulic boundary together with aquifer transmissivity and storage; three wells performed about as well as four.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Tidal Signal Propagation in Coastal Aquifers Considering Semi-Permeable Boundaries and Partial Penetration Effects

Fu-Kuo Huang, Ying-Fan Lin*, Grace S. Wang, Barret L. Kurylyk

Accounting for short well screens and low-permeability layer boundaries produced more plausible aquifer properties at the field site than assuming fully penetrating wells.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Improving Water Table Kinematic Conditions with Unsaturated Flow Insights

Jun-Hong Lin, Ying-Fan Lin*

The water-table condition keeps a time scale for gravity drainage, which helps avoid treating unsaturated flow as instantaneous by default.

Water Resources Research · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Reply to the discussion by Lv and Qian of “A simple analytical solution for organic contaminant diffusion through a geomembrane to unsaturated soil liner: Considering the sorption effect and Robin-type boundary” by Lin and Yeh (2020)

Ying-Fan Lin; Hund-Der Yeh*

This technical reply shows that the published transport solution gives the wrong long-time concentration and identifies the equations that require correction.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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data ai

Solving Inverse Wave Problems Using Spacetime Radial Basis Functions in Neural Networks

Chih-Yu Liu, Cheng-Yu Ku*, Wei-Da Chen, Ying-Fan Lin, Jun-Hong Lin

A physics-informed neural network reconstructed the tested wave fields accurately from incomplete and noisy data after its spatial and temporal scales were optimized.

Mathematics · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Re-Derivation of The High-Permeability Wellbore Skin Effect Conditions

Ying-Fan Lin*, Jun-Hong Lin, Jui-Pin Tsai, Hwa-Lung Yu

For a highly permeable well skin, head remains continuous but flux can change across the interface; the usual low-permeability skin condition is therefore not valid.

農業工程學報 / Journal of Taiwan Agricultural Engineering · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Theoretical Evaluation of High-Permeability Wellbore Skin Effect on Aquifer Response under Pumping

Jun-Hong Lin, Ying-Fan Lin*

A simplified interface captures the main drawdown behavior of a fully resolved high-permeability zone around a well while requiring less computation.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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subsurface energy

Application of the Image-Well Method for Transient Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Systems with Complex Boundaries

Ying-Fan Lin*, Gabriel Rau, Barret Kurylyk

For the tested borehole thermal energy storage systems, image wells matched finite-element temperatures at much lower computational cost and revealed how boundaries alter heat storage.

Heat Transfer · Published

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lagging theory

Analysis of Groundwater Time Series with Limited Pumping Information in Unconfined Aquifer: Response Function Based on Lagging Theory

Ying‐Fan Lin, Hua‐Ting Tseng, Shih‐Yao Lee, Hwa‐Lung Yu*

A lagging-response model inferred plausible unconfined-aquifer properties from groundwater levels even when detailed pumping rates and well locations were unavailable.

Water Resources Research · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Semi-Analytical Modeling of Transient Stream Drawdown and Depletion in Response to Aquifer Pumping

Bwalya Malama*, Ying-Fan Lin, Kristopher L. Kuhlman

Because a stream stores only a finite amount of water, its stage changes during pumping and its support to the well weakens with time.

Groundwater · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Analytical Methodology for Determining the Extent of Pumped Freshwater Lenses in Recharge-Limited, Circular Islands

Barret L. Kurylyk*, Yin-Fang Lin, Cristina Solórzano-Riva, Adrian D. Werner

A fast analytical calculation estimates freshwater-lens shape and pumping vulnerability for multiple wells and changing recharge.

Advances in Water Resources · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

Advanced Analytical Model for Interpreting Oscillatory Pumping Tests With Wellbore Skin and Rate-Dependent Skin Effects

Ali Mahdavi, Barret L. Kurylyk, Yin-Fang Lin*

Including both near-well skin and rate-dependent well loss reproduces the sharp peaks in the field data that simpler well models miss.

Water Resources Research · Published

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data ai

Estimating Spatiotemporal Pumping Amounts Using Multiple Signal Decomposition Methods

Hua-Ting Tseng, Ying-Fan Lin, Hwa-Lung Yu*

Hourly groundwater levels were used to reconstruct regional pumping of 1.71-2.05 billion cubic metres per year, with patterns consistent with agricultural demand and land subsidence.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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lagging theory

Analytical Study of Dual-Porosity Coastal Aquifer with Generalized Nonlinear Water Transfer Term

Kuo-Chen Ma, Mo-Hsiung Chuang, Ya-Chi Chang*, Ying-Fan Lin

In the dual-porosity model, stronger exchange shifts more of the response into fractures and less into the rock matrix near the coast.

Hydrological Processes · Published

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data ai

Estimating Hydrogeological Parameters at Groundwater Level Observation Wells Without Pumping Well Information

Hwa-Lung Yu, Shih-Yao Lee, Hua-Ting Tseng, Ying-Fan Lin*

A standard pumping-test model can estimate aquifer storage from observation-well drawdown even when the individual pumping wells are unknown.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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data ai

A Novel Framework for Spatiotemporal Groundwater Pumping Process Estimation Based on Data-Driven Approaches

Hwa-Lung Yu*, Hua-Ting Tseng, Ying-Fan Lin, Chun-Hung Chen, Ying-Chang Kuo, Yun-Ta Cheng

A signal-decomposition method recovered where pumping occurred and how pumping rates changed from dense groundwater-level records in the synthetic test.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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lagging theory

A Temporally Relaxed Theory of Physically or Chemically Non-Equilibrium Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Ying-Fan Lin, Junqi Huang, Elliot J. Carr, Tung-Chou Hsieh, Hongbin Zhan*, Hwa-Lung Yu*

A two-time-scale transport equation reproduced the two-stage breakthrough behavior observed in both laboratory columns.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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subsurface energy

Effects of Soil Type and Thermal Boundary on Predicting Temperature Profiles and Groundwater Fluxes

Chia-Hao Chang, Ying-Fan Lin, Yo-Jin Shiau, Yi-Zhih Tsai, Jui-Pin Tsai*

Soil type and the lower thermal boundary increasingly affect temperature profiles over time; ignoring the lower boundary can bias groundwater-flux estimates.

Groundwater · Published

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subsurface energy

Estimation of Rainfall Infiltration Rates by New Heat Transfer Models and Subsurface Temperature Profiles

Cia-Hao Chang, Yi-Zhih Tsai, Shao-Yiu Hsu, Hwa-Lung Yu, Ying-Fan Lin, Sin-Wei Yeh, Jui-Pin Tsai*

For three rainfall patterns, the analytical model reproduced measured infiltration rates and matched the numerical temperature profiles.

農業工程學報 / Journal of Taiwan Agricultural Engineering · Published

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lagging theory

Well Hydraulics in Wedge-Shaped Aquifer: Unsteady Darcian Flow Model Revisited by Lagging Theory

Ali Mahdavi*, Ying-Fan Lin, Hwa-Lung Yu

When flux responds more slowly than hydraulic gradient, pumping can produce wave-like drawdown and temporary recharge overshoot; when storage responds more slowly, the behavior resembles delayed drainage or dual porosity.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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subsurface energy

Analytical Solution for Estimating Transient Vertical Groundwater Flux from Temperature-Depth Profiles

Ying-Fan Lin, Chia-Hao Chang, Jui-PinTsai*

Temperature profiles provide time-varying estimates of vertical groundwater flux instead of imposing a constant-flux condition.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

A Semi-Analytical Solution for Slug Test by Considering Near-Well Formation Damage and Nonlinear Flow

Ying-Fan Lin, Hund-Der Yeh*

For the tested wells, the combined model best explained the data; at LA-87B, non-Darcy well loss mattered more than formation damage.

Water Resources Research · Published

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lagging theory

An Analytical Model With a Generalized Nonlinear Water Transfer Term for the Flow in Dual-Porosity Media Induced by Constant-Rate Pumping in a Leaky Fractured Aquifer

Ying-Fan Lin, Hund-Der Yeh*

A generalized model let the data determine the relative influence of two limiting behaviors and fit both pumping records better than fixing either limit in advance.

Water Resources Research · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

A Simple Analytical Solution for Organic Contaminant Diffusion Through a Geomembrane to Unsaturated Soil Liner: Considering the Sorption Effect and Robin-Type Boundary

Ye-Chen Lin, Hund-Der Yeh*

The analytical transport solution matched the laboratory concentration data and estimated transport parameters without requiring the extra batch tests used by the comparison method.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

New Analytical Models for Flow Induced by Pumping in a Stream-Aquifer System: A New Robin Boundary Condition Reflecting Joint Effect of Streambed Width and Storage

Ching‐Sheng Huang, Zicheng Wang, Ye‐Chen Lin, Hund‐Der Yeh*, Tao Yang*

A delayed stream boundary approximates an explicitly modelled streambed efficiently, although the difference depends on pumping time, well distance, and streambed properties.

Water Resources Research · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

New Analytical Model for Constant-Head Pumping: Considering Rate-Dependent Factor at Well Screen

Ye-Chen Lin, Hund-Der Yeh*

Applying the fitted well-loss criterion indicates that both test wells were inadequately designed or developed.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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subsurface energy

Analytical Model for Heat Transfer Accounting for Both Conduction and Dispersion in Aquifers with a Robin-Type Boundary Condition at the Injection Well

Ye-Chen Lin, Ting-Fang Hu, Hund-Der Yeh*

During the tested injection period, the coupled heat-transfer model reproduced the measured temperature distribution at an aquifer thermal energy storage site.

Water Resources Research · Published

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lagging theory

Analysis of Unconfined Flow Induced by Constant Rate Pumping Based on the Lagging Theory

Ye-Chen Lin, Ching-Sheng Huang, Hund-Der Yeh*

Allowing groundwater flux and hydraulic gradient to lag by different amounts fitted drawdown at three sites and produced specific-yield estimates consistent with laboratory ranges.

Water Resources Research · Published

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lagging theory

A Lagging Model for Describing Drawdown Induced by a Constant-Rate Pumping in a Leaky Confined Aquifer

Ying-Fan Lin, Hund-Der Yeh*

A pumping-test model is used to examine whether radial flux and drawdown gradient need to respond at the same instant.

Water Resources Research · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

An Analytical Model for Flow Induced by a Constant-Head Pumping in a Leaky Unconfined Aquifer System with Considering Unsaturated Flow

Ye-Chen Lin, Ming-Hsu Li, Hund-Der Yeh*

An analytical constant-head model that includes unsaturated drainage and leakage from a lower layer agreed with numerical simulations and field observations under the tested conditions.

Advances in Water Resources · Published

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analytical well hydraulics

A General Analytical Model for Pumping Tests in Radial Finite Two-Zone Confined Aquifers with Robin-Type Outer Boundary

Ye-Chen Lin, Shaw-Yang Yang, Chiu-Shia Fen, Hund-Der Yeh*

In a finite two-zone aquifer, the outer boundary has little effect early in a pumping test but controls late-time drawdown and well flow.

Journal of Hydrology · Published

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