Nonlocal and localized analyses of conditional mean steady state flow in bounded, randomly nonuniform domains 1. Theory and computational approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2999-3018

  Guadagnini, Alberto ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STEADY FLOW; TENSORS;

DARCIAN STEADY STATE FLOW EQUATION; MOMENT EQUATIONS;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PREDICTION; STEADY FLOW;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PREDICTION; STEADY FLOW;

EID: 0032826156     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900160     Document Type: Article

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