Advective control of groundwater contaminant plumes: Model development and comparison to hydraulic control

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2285-2294

  Mulligan, Ann E ^a,b   Ahlfeld, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL PLUMES; WATER WELLS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DESIGN; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY;

ADVECTIVE CONTROL MODEL; PARTICLE-TRACKING TECHNIQUES; CONCENTRATION CONTROL; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANT PLUME; GROUNDWATER PLUMES; OPTIMIZATION FORMULATIONS; PARTICLE TRACKING TECHNIQUES; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TWO-STEP PROCEDURE;

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ADVECTION; CONTROL SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PLUME;

EID: 0032858677     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900106     Document Type: Article

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