Field investigation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site (New Mexico) using a nonstationary stochastic model with a trending hydraulic conductivity field

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1011-1018

  Seong, Kwanjae ^a   Rubin, Yoram ^b  

^a Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^b 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WASTE FACILITY;

EID: 0032903539     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900107     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bellin, A., P. Salandin, and A. Rinaldo, Simulation of dispersion in heterogeneous porous formations: Statistics, first-order theories, convergence of computations, Water Resour. Res., 28, 2211-2228, 1992.
2. Chin, D. A., and T. Wang, An investigation of the validity of first-order stochastic dispersion theories in isotropic porous media, Water Resour. Res., 28, 1531-1542, 1992.
3. Dagan, G., Stochastic modeling of groundwater flow by unconditional and conditional probabilities: The inverse problem, Water Resour. Res., 21, 65-72, 1985.
4. Dagan, G., Flow and Transport in Porous Formations, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989.
5. Dagan, G., and S. P. Neuman, Subsurface Flow and Transport: A Stochastic Approach, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1997.
6. de Marsily, G., Quantitative Hydrogeology, Academic, San Diego, Calif., 1986.
7. Deng, F. W., and J. H. Cushman, Higher-order corrections to the flow velocity covariance tensor, revisited, Water Resour. Res., 34, 103-106, 1998.
8. Deutsch, C. V., and A. G. Journel, GSLIB Geostatistical Software Library and User Manual, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1992.
9. Egglestone, J., and S. Rojstaczer, Identification of large-scale hydraulic conductivity trends and the influence of trends on contaminant transports, Water Resour. Res., 34, 2155-2168, 1998.
10. Ezzedine, S., and Y. Rubin, Analysis of the Cape Cod tracer data, Water Resour. Res., 33, 1-12, 1997.
11. Gelhar, L. W., Stochastic Subsurface Hydrology, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1993.
12. Indelman, P., and Y. Rubin, Flow in heterogeneous media displaying a linear trend in the log conductivity, Water Resour. Res., 31, 1257-1265, 1995.
13. Indelman, P., and Y. Rubin, Solute transport in nonstationary velocity fields, Water Resour. Res., 32, 1259-1267, 1996a.
14. Indelman, P., and Y. Rubin, Averaged flow in a heterogeneous media of trending hydraulic conductivity, J. Hydrol., 183, 57-68, 1996b.
15. Jury, W. A., D. Russo, G. Sposito, and H. Elabd, The spatial variability of water and solute transport properties in unsaturated soil, I, Analysis of property variation and spatial structure with statistical models, Hilgardia, 55, 1-32, 1987.
16. Kitanidis, P. K., A reassessment of the groundwater inverse problem: Comment, Water Resour. Res., 33, 2199-2202, 1997.
17. Kitanidis, P. K., and E. G. Vomvoris, A geostatistical approach to the inverse problem in groundwater modeling (steady state) and one-dimensional simulations, Water Resour. Res., 19, 677-690, 1985.
18. LaVenue, A. M., B. S. RamaRao, G. de Marsily, and M. G. Marietta, Pilot point methodology for automated calibration of an ensemble of conditionally simulated transmissivity fields, 2, Application, Water Resour. Res., 31, 495-516, 1995.
19. Loaiciga, H. A., R. B. Leipnik, M. A. Marino, and P. F. Hudak, Stochastic groundwater flow in the presence of trends in heterogeneous hydraulic conductivity fields, Math. Geol., 25, 161-176, 1993.
20. McLaughlin, D., and L. R. Townley, A reassessment of the groundwater inverse problem, Water Resour. Res., 32, 1135-1161, 1996.
21. Rajaram, H., and D McLaughlin, Identification of large-scale spatial trends in hydrologic data, Water Resour. Res., 26, 2411-2423, 1990.
22. Rehfeldt, K. R., J. M. Boggs, and L. W. Gelhar, Field study of dispersion in a heterogeneous aquifer, 3, Geostatistical analysis of hydraulic conductivity, Water Resour. Res., 28, 3309-3324, 1992.
23. Rubin, Y., Transport of inert solutes by groundwater: Recent developments and current issues, in Subsurface Flow and Transport: A Stochastic Approach, edited by G. Dagan and S. P. Neuman, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1997.
24. Rubin, Y., and A. Bellin, The effects of recharge on flow nonuniformity and macrodispersion, Water Resour. Res., 30, 939-948, 1994.
25. Rubin, Y., and G. Dagan, Stochastic identification of transmissivity and effective recharge in steady groundwater flow, 1, Theory, Water Resour. Res., 23, 1185-1192, 1987.
26. Rubin, Y., and G. Dagan, Conditional estimation of solute travel time in heterogeneous formations, 1, Impact of transmissivity measurements, Water Resour. Res., 28, 1033-1040, 1992.
27. Rubin, Y., and K. Seong, Investigation of flow and transport in certain cases of nonstationary conductivity fields, Water Resour. Res., 30, 2901-2911, 1994.
28. Woodbury, A. D., and E. A. Sudicky, The geostatistical characteristics of the Borden aquifer, Water Resour. Res., 27, 533-546, 1991.