Is transmissivity a meaningful property of natural formations? Conceptual issues and model development

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Dagan, G ^a   Lessoff, S C ^a   Fiori, A ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D STRUCTURES; CONSTANT THICKNESS; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITIES; EXPECTED VALUES; FIELD DATUM; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; FLOW CONDITIONS; FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; HORIZONTAL PLANES; LOCAL PROPERTIES; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL FORMATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; PARAMETER VALUES; POINT VALUES; RANDOM FUNCTIONS; REGIONAL SCALE; SEPARATION OF SCALE; TRANSMISSIVITY; UNIFORM FLOWS;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RANDOM VARIABLES; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TRANSMISSIVITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 65349100620     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007410     Document Type: Article

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