Calibration of complex subsurface reaction models using a surrogate-model approach

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1697-1707

  Matott, L Shawn ^a   Rabideau, Alan J ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Gauss Marquardt Levenberg; Multiple models; Parameter estimation; Particle swarm optimization; Subsurface modeling; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONTAMINATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; NITRATES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

GAUSS MARQUARDT LEVENBERG; MULTIPLE MODELS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; SUBSURFACE MODELING; SURROGATES;

CALIBRATION;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURROGATE METHOD;

EID: 55649086629     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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