Notes on groundwater age in forward and inverse modeling

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 79, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 117-134

  Ginn, Timothy R ^a   Haeri, Hanieh ^a   Massoudieh, Arash ^a   Foglia, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Groundwater age; Inverse problems; Transport

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; AQUITARDS; BASIC RESULTS; DIFFUSIVE MASS TRANSFER; FLOW PROCESS; FLOW PROPERTIES; FORWARD AND INVERSE MODELING; GLOBAL REPRESENTATION; GROUNDWATER AGE; GROUNDWATER AGES; INVERSE IDENTIFICATION; NONUNIQUENESS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PIE- ZOMETRIC HEAD; TEMPORAL MOMENTS; TRANSPORT;

AQUIFERS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISPERSIONS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

AQUIFER; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INVERSE PROBLEM; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 68349120360     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9406-1     Document Type: Article

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