Efficient solution of nonlinear, underdetermined inverse problems with a generalized PDE model

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1480-1491

  Cardiff, Michael ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^a  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint state; COMSOL; Hydrogeology; Inverse problem; Numerical model; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EARTH SCIENCES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER;

ADJOINT; COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS; EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS; ESTIMATION PROBLEMS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION (PDE); PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY MATRICES; SOLUTION OF INVERSE PROBLEMS; UNDER-DETERMINED INVERSE PROBLEM; UNIQUE SOLUTION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ADJOINT METHOD; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 48749111022     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.01.013     Document Type: Article

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