Flow in multiscale log conductivity fields with truncated power variograms

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 975-987

  Di Federico, Vittorio ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; VARLOGRAM;

BOREHOLES; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CROSS-COVARIANCE FUNCTION; EFFECTIVE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; GROUNDWATER VELOCITY; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; MULTISCALE HIERARCHIES; MULTISCALE RANDOM FIELDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0031982351     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00220     Document Type: Article

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