Correlation structure of flow variables for steady flow toward a well with application to highly anisotropic heterogeneous formations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 699-708

  Fiori, A ^a   Indelman, P ^b   Dagan, G ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; FLOW; GROUNDWATER;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; ERBIUM;

CORRELATION STRUCTURE; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; GAUSSIAN CORRELATION; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VARIANCE APPROACHES;

STEADY FLOW;

EID: 0031899097     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR02491     Document Type: Article

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