Comparison of function approximation, heuristic, and derivative-based methods for automatic calibration of computationally expensive groundwater bioremediation models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Mugunthan, Pradeep ^a   Shoemaker, Christine A ^a   Regis, Rommel G ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

BIOKINETIC PARAMETERS; FUNCTION APPROXIMATION (FA); GROUNDWATER BIOREMEDIATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS;

GROUNDWATER;

BIOREMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; HEURISTICS; MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29944433778     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004134     Document Type: Article

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