Upscaling unsaturated hydraulic parameters for flow through heterogeneous anisotropic sediments

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 268-280

  Ward, Andy L ^a   Zhang, Z Fred ^a   Gee, Glendon W ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTS; TEXTURES;

SATURATION DEPENDENT ANISOTROPY; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UPSCALED WATER CHARACTERISTICS;

FLOW OF WATER;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; DISPERSION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; DISPERSION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; METHODOLOGY; UNSATURATED FLOW; UPSCALING;

EID: 29644439127     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.02.013     Document Type: Article

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