Nonstationary stochastic analysis in well capture zone design using first-order Taylor's series approximation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Bakr, Mahmoud I ^a,b   Butler, Adrian P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation MWRI   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; COVARIANCE FUNCTIONS; FLOW FIELDS; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

WATER WELLS;

FLOW FIELD; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PUMPING;

FLOW FIELD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PUMPING;

EID: 14944344639     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003648     Document Type: Article

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