Simulation of solute transport in a heterogeneous vadose zone describing the hydraulic properties using a multistep stochastic approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Oliveira, Leonardo I ^a   Demond, Avery H ^a   Abriola, Linda M ^b   Goovaerts, Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; MULTISTEP STOCHASTIC APPROACH; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VADOSE ZONE;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; VADOSE ZONE;

LAS CRUCES; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745431845     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004580     Document Type: Article

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