Combining geostatistics and flow simulators to identify transmissivity

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 555-565

  Roth, Chris ^a,b   Chilès, Jean Paul ^a   De Fouquet, Chantal ^b  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b CENTRE DE GÉOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

GEOSTATISTICAL SIMULATIONS; HYDRAULIC HEADS; INVERSE MODELLING; NUMERICAL COVARIANCES; TRANSMISSIVITY;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSMISSIVITY;

STATISTICAL METHOD; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 0032525678     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1708(97)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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