Estimating the variance and integral scale of the transmissivity field using head residual increments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1353-1358

  Zheng, Li ^a   Silliman, Stephen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 0034021967     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900015     Document Type: Article

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