Locating monitoring wells in groundwater systems using embedded optimization and simulation models

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2189-2198

  Bashi Azghadi, Seyyed Nasser ^a   Kerachian, Reza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Embedded optimization and simulation models; Groundwater monitoring; Pollution source identification; Probabilistic Support Vector Machines (PSVMs)

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER MONITORING; POLLUTION SOURCES; PROBABILISTIC SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (PSVMS); SIMULATION MODEL;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GEARS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION DETECTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WELLS;

MONITORING;

GROUND WATER;

DETECTION METHOD; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MONITORING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; WATER QUALITY; WELL;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PETROLEUM; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

IRAN; TEHRAN [IRAN];

EID: 77649270900     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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