Inverse modeling for locating dense nonaqueous pools in groundwater under steady flow conditions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1723-1735

  Sciortino, Antonella ^a   Harmon, Thomas C ^a   Yeh, William W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; GROUND WATER; MODEL; POOL; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER FLOW;

GROUNDWATER; NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY FLOW;

GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; POROUS MEDIUM;

ERRORS; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LOCATION; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS; STEADY FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BENCH SCALE EXPERIMENTS; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; LEAST SQUARES MINIMIZATION; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHM; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT METHOD; SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0033841035     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900047     Document Type: Article

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