Dispersivity estimates from a tracer experiment in a sandy aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 304-310

  Mallants, Dirk ^a,b   Espino, Armando ^a   Van Hoorick, Marijke ^a   Feyen, Jan ^a   Vandenberghe, Noel ^a   Loy, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSORS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER QUALITY;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; MACROSCOPIC DISPERSIVITY TENSOR; MULTILEVEL POINT SAMPLES; SHALLOW SANDY AQUIFER; TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSPORT MODEL;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; DISPERSIVITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACER;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0034161618     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2000.tb00341.x     Document Type: Article

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