An investigation of numerical grid effects in parameter estimation

Ground Water

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 814-825

  Zyvoloski, George A ^a   Vesselinov, Velimir V ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMEDIATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GRID; FLOW EQUATION; NUMERICAL FORMULATION; REMEDIATION PROJECTS; SPATIAL HYDROSTRATIGRAPHY;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

WATER;

AQUIFER; COMPLEXITY; EQUATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; VADOSE ZONE;

CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERMEABILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; WATER FLOW;

CALIBRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PERMEABILITY; UNCERTAINTY; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 33750467667     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00203.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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