Equivalent hydraulic conductivity of an experimental stratigraphy: Implications for basin-scale flow simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Ye ^a   Gable, Carl W ^b   Person, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTATION;

NO-FLOW BOUNDARY; SCALED FRAMEWORK MODELS; STRATIFIED DEPOSITS; TOPOGRAPHY;

WATER RESOURCES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTATION; WATER RESOURCES;

BASIN ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 33745457704     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004720     Document Type: Article

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