Stochastic simulation of transmissivity fields conditional to both transmissivity and piezometric head data - 3. Application to the Culebra Formation at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan (WIPP), New Mexico, USA

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 207, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 254-269

  Capilla, José E ^a   Gómez Hernández, J Jaime ^a   Sahuquillo, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Nuclear waste disposal; Self calibrated algorithm; Stochastic hydrogeology; Stochastic inverse modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER ANALYSIS;

GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROGEOLOGY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS TRANSPORT; MODELING; TRANSMISSIVITY;

UNITED STATES, NEW MEXICO;

EID: 0032565974     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(98)00138-3     Document Type: Article

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