Two-dimensional sensitivity analysis of contaminant transport in the unsaturated zone

Ground Water

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 185-193

  Boateng, Samuel ^a   Cawlfield, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMPURITIES; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MOLECULAR DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; VAN GENUCHTEN MODEL;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNSATURATED ZONE;

EID: 0033106104     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1999.tb00973.x     Document Type: Article

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