Impact of log-transmissivity variogram structure on groundwater flow and transport predictions

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1311-1322

  Riva, M ^a   Willmann, M ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous media; Stochastic analysis; Variogram model

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FLOW EQUATIONS; GAUSSIAN; GEOSTATISTICAL; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HYDRAULIC HEADS; INTERNAL SOURCE; INVERSE MODELS; MEAN VALUES; MODEL DISCRIMINATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OUTER DOMAIN; POROUS SYSTEM; PREDICTION VARIANCE; RELATIVE DISTANCES; ROBUST TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STATE VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSIVITY; TRANSMISSIVITY FIELD; TRAVEL TIME; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; VARIOGRAM; VARIOGRAM MODEL; VARIOGRAM MODELS;

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

FLOW MODELING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC HEAD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; STOCHASTICITY; TRAJECTORY; TRANSMISSIVITY; TRAVEL TIME; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 67650569239     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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