Reconstructing groundwater source release histories using hybrid optimization approaches

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-54

  Mahinthakumar, G Kumar ^a,c   Sayeed, Mohamed ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental forensics; Groundwater; Inverse problems; Optimization; Release history reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644969547     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920500506774     Document Type: Article

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