Multifractal anisotropic scaling of the hydraulic conductivity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Tennekoon, Lilantha ^a   Boufadel, Michel C ^a   Lavallee, Daniel ^b   Weaver, James ^c  

^a Temple University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Hydraulic conductivity; Multifractals; Multiscaling; Non Gaussian; Structure function

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; FRACTALS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTIFRACTALITY; SCALING PROPERTIES;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; SCALE EFFECT;

NORTH AMERICA;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 17144440486     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001645     Document Type: Article

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