Infiltration wells are cylindrical artificial basins, created for the purpose of disposing of flood flows within preset limits, depending on the hydraulic conductivity of the soil.
To operate the disposal and lamination of the flows, the infiltration well must have a capacity suitable to determine a temporary storage process of the incoming flood wave and its gradual disposal over time.
This process of accumulation and temporal lamination is described mathematically by the following continuity equation:
The design of the infiltration well essentially consists in determining the minimum capacity it must have.
This application allows estimating the water level in the well hw, applying the classic solution proposed by F. Sieker, for axially symmetric infiltration wells inserted in a homogeneous soil.