Uncertainty and data worth analysis for the hydraulic design of funnel-and-gate systems in heterogeneous aquifers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Cirpka, Olaf A ^a   Bürger, Claudius M ^b   Nowak, Wolfgang ^c   Finkel, Michael ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Data worth; Funnel and gate systems; Heterogeneous aquifers; Stream function; Uncertainty propagation

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DATA REDUCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SAMPLING; THERMAL PLUMES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ADDITIONAL SAMPLES; FUNNEL-AND-GATE SYSTEMS; PLUME BYPASSES; STEADY STATE FLOW;

HYDRAULIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; POLLUTION CONTROL; REACTIVE BARRIER;

EID: 10944235085     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003352     Document Type: Article

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