Modelling groundwater flow and advective contaminant transport in the Bou-Areg unconfined aquifer (NE Morocco)

Journal of Hydro-Environment Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-209

  El Yaouti, F ^a   El Mandour, A ^b   Khattach, D ^a   Kaufmann, O ^c  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^c FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Advective transport MODPATH; Bou Areg unconfined aquifer; GMS (MODFLOW); Groundwater Flow Model; Recharge; Steady and transient states

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CALIBRATION; CEMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELASTIC MODULI; FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SILT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT MODPATH; BOU-AREG UNCONFINED AQUIFER; GMS (MODFLOW); GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; RECHARGE; STEADY AND TRANSIENT STATES;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ADVECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; OPTIMIZATION; PLIOCENE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; QUATERNARY; UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

AFRICA; BOU AREG AQUIFER; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; ORIENTAL;

EID: 56349145638     PISSN: 15706443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jher.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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