Uncertainty propagation in layered unsaturated soils

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 273-290

  Dillah, Darrin D ^a,b   Protopapas, Angelos L ^a,b  

^a SCS ENGINEERS   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous soils; Monte carlo; Randomness of hydraulic properties; Stochastic process; Uncertainty propagation; Unsaturated flow model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOILS; WETTING;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE RANUF; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL-WATER INTERACTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WETTING;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WETTING FRONT;

EID: 0034035207     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006652910944     Document Type: Article

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