Hydraulic tomography using temporal moments of drawdown recovery data: A laboratory sandbox study

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Yin, Danting ^a   Illman, Walte A ^a,b  

^a University of Waterloo ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; POISSON EQUATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; COMPUTATIONAL BURDENS; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; FIELD TESTS; FORCING FUNCTIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LABORATORY TESTS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; POISSON'S EQUATIONS; PUMPING TESTS; SOURCE SINKS; STEADY STATE; SYNTHETIC AQUIFERS; SYNTHETIC SIMULATIONS; TEMPORAL MOMENTS;

HYDRAULICS;

AQUIFER; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; LABORATORY METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TESTING METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 61349114945     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006623     Document Type: Article

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