Stochastic uncertainty analysis for unconfined flow systems

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Gaisheng ^a,b   Zhang, Dongxiao ^a,c   Lu, Zhiming ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

KARHUNEN-LOEVE DECOMPOSITION-BASED MOMENT EQUATION (KLME); ORTHOGONAL GAUSSIAN; POLYNOMIAL EXPANSION; UNCONFINED FLOW;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERN; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NONLINEARITY; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750371348     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004766     Document Type: Article

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