Analysis of tracer tomography using temporal moments of tracer breakthrough curves

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 391-400

  Zhu, Junfeng ^a   Cai, Xing ^b   Jim Yeh, Tian Chyi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hydraulic tracer tomography; Parameter estimation; Source zone characterization; Temporal moments

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DISPERSIONS; GALERKIN METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMPURITIES; LIQUIDS; METAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONCENTRATION DATUM; CONVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATIONS; CONVECTION-DOMINATED; DENSE NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; FINITE ELEMENT SOLVERS; HYDRAULIC/TRACER TOMOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL OSCILLATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; SOURCE ZONE CHARACTERIZATION; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STREAMLINE UPWIND PETROV-GALERKIN METHODS; TEMPORAL MOMENTS; TIME MARCHING SCHEMES; TOMOGRAPHIC; TRACER BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; TRACER CONCENTRATIONS; TRACER TESTS; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DENSE WATER; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 61349092849     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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