Estimation of field-scale thermal conductivities of unsaturated rocks from in situ temperature data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Mukhopadhyay, Sumit ^a   Tsang, Yvonne W ^a   Birkholzer, Jens T ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FIELD-SCALE MODELS; TEMPERATURE DATA;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; HEATING; HOST ROCK; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROCK PROPERTY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 35848944341     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005283     Document Type: Article

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