Stochastic analysis of unsaturated flow with probabilistic collocation method

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Li, Weixuan ^a   Lu, Zhiming ^b   Zhang, Dongxiao ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOCATION POINTS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; CORRELATION SCALE; EFFECTIVE SATURATION; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOW QUANTITIES; FLOW STATISTICS; INPUT VARIANCE; KARHUNEN LOEVE EXPANSION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTIPLE INPUTS; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION; PRESSURE HEADS; PROBABILISTIC COLLOCATION METHOD; PROBABILITY SPACES; RANDOM FIELDS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; UNSATURATED FLOWS; UNSATURATED ZONE;

NANOELECTRONICS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION; FLOW MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PROBABILITY; SATURATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STOCHASTICITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 70349770723     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007530     Document Type: Article

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