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AIRSLUG

A Fortran program to generate type curves to interpret the recovery data from prematurely terminated air-pressurized slug tests

Information

• Summary of AIRSLUG
• Version history
• UNIX or DOS installation instructions (README file)
• How to obtain U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation
• How to register to receive software update and enhancement notices

Software

• Selection of the following options preceded by a binary icon retrieves a compressed UNIX tar file or a self-extracting DOS executable. A README file containing installation instructions is included with each of the software distribution files. There are separate README files for the UNIX and DOS distributions.
• The Free Software Foundation's gunzip is necessary to uncompress the UNIX tar files available below. However, some World Wide Web browsers automatically uncompress retrieved files. Thus, running gunzip as stated in the installation instructions may be unnecessary.

AIRSLUG compiled for...

• Data General AViiON (91K)
• Silicon Graphics Indigo (32K)
• Sun SPARCstation (Solaris) (41K)
• IBM-compatible PC, 386 or higher with math coprocessor (182K)
• IBM-compatible PC, 386 or higher with math coprocessor (includes source) (186K)

AIRSLUG source code for compilation under...

• airslug1.1.source.tar.gz (25K)
• airs1_1s.exe (39K)

Documentation

• How to obtain U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation
• Shapiro, A. M., and Greene, E. A., 1995, Interpretation of prematurely terminated air-pressurized slug tests: Ground Water, v. 33, no. 4, p. 539-546.
• Greene, E. A., and Shapiro, A. M., 1995, Methods of conducting air-pressurized slug tests and computation of type curves for estimating transmissivity and storativity: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-424, 43 p.

Point of contact for AIRSLUG -- Earl Greene (eagreene@usgs.gov)