Equifinality and sensitivity in freezing and thawing simulations of laboratory and in situ data

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-37

  Hansson, Klas ^a   Lundin, Lars Christer ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Highways; Numerical models; Sensitivity analysis; Soil freezing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAND; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION (GLUE); NUMERICAL MODELS; SOIL FREEZING;

FROZEN SOILS;

FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 30944446805     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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