A robust approach for iterative contaminant source location and release history recovery

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 181-196

  Sun, Alexander Y ^a   Painter, Scott L ^a   Wittmeyer, Gordon W ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Constrained robust least squares; Contaminant source identification; Global optimization; Model uncertainty; Robust programming

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CONSTRAINED ROBUST LEAST SQUARES; CONTAMINANT SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; MODEL UNCERTAINTY; ROBUST PROGRAMMING;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

WATER;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLLUTION DETECTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

LEAST SQUARES METHOD; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33751221319     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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