Backward location and travel time probabilities for a decaying contaminant in an aquifer

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 39-58

  Neupauer, Roseanna M ^a,b   Wilson, John L ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint state; Groundwater; Mathematical models; Probability; Reactive transport; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY;

DECAYING CONTAMINANTS;

AQUIFERS;

GROUND WATER; WELL WATER;

AQUIFER; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POLLUTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

AQUIFER; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRAVEL TIME;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOLUTE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0141627569     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7722(03)00024-X     Document Type: Article

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