On the value of lithofacies data for improving groundwater flow model accuracy in a three-dimensional laboratory-scale synthetic aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Sakaki, Toshihiro ^a   Frippiat, Christophe C ^a,b   Komatsu, Mitsuru ^c   Illangasekare, Tissa H ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; CALIBRATED MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROUNDWATER FLOW MODEL; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY SCALE; LITHOFACIES; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MARKOV CHAINS MODEL; MODEL CALIBRATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTIMAL NUMBER; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION ERRORS; PREDICTIVE SIMULATIONS; PUMPING TESTS; SYNTHETIC AQUIFERS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

AQUIFERS; BOREHOLES; CALIBRATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUMPS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SIMULATORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AQUIFER; BOREHOLE; CALIBRATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ERROR CORRECTION; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LITHOFACIES; MARKOV CHAIN; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 72149094296     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007229     Document Type: Article

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