Groundwater flow in heterogeneous composite aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 23-1-23-11

  Winter, C L ^a   Tartakovsky, Daniel M ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Effective; Nonstationary; Random; Stochastic; Upscaled

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS;

DISJOINT BLOCKS;

GROUNDWATER;

AQUIFER; FLOW ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0036702786     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000450     Document Type: Article

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