Simultaneous identification of a single pollution point-source location and contamination time under known flow field conditions

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2439-2446

  Milnes, Ellen ^a   Perrochet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Backward transport; Location probability; Point source pollution; Pollution source identification

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FLOW FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HETEROGENEOUS MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYSTEM; QUADRATIC INTEGRAL;

WATER POLLUTION;

DISPERSIONS; FLOW FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER POLLUTION;

FLOW FIELD; LOCATION THEORY; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 34748896000     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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