Simple closed form formulas for predicting groundwater flow model uncertainty in complex, heterogeneous trending media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Ni, Chuen Fa ^a   Li, Shu Guang ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STEADY FLOW;

HETEROGENEOUS TRENDING MEDIA; NONSTATIONARY DISTRIBUTION; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; STEADY STATE FLOWS;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER;

FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

EID: 29944441764     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004143     Document Type: Article

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