Estimation of effective hydrogeological parameters in heterogeneous and anisotropic aquifers

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 389, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 57-68

  Lin, Hsien Tsung ^a   Tan, Yih Chi ^a   Chen, Chu Hui ^b   Yu, Hwa Lung ^a   Wu, Shih Ching ^a   Ke, Kai Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adjoint state method; Effective transmissivity; Pumping test; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; AQUIFER PARAMETERS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CURVE METHOD; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GROUNDWATER MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; INPUT PARAMETER; LEAST MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PUMPING TEST; PUMPING TESTS; STORAGE COEFFICIENT; TABU SEARCH METHOD; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TRANSMISSIVITY;

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; ERRORS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PUMPS;

TABU SEARCH;

ADJOINT METHOD; ANISOTROPY; AQUIFER; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PUMPING; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 77954386027     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.021     Document Type: Article

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