Characterizing uncertainties associated with contaminant transport modeling through a coupled fuzzy-stochastic approach

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 197, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 331-348

  Qin, X S ^a   Huang, G H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contaminant transport; Factorial design; Fuzzy modeling; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT MODELING; DISPERSIVITY; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FUZZY MODELING; HYDROGEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; INPUT PARAMETERS; MODEL INPUT; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; REMEDIATION DESIGN; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

CONTAMINATION; DESIGN; FUZZY SETS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REMEDIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 58549088121     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-008-9815-8     Document Type: Article

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