CXTFIT/Excel-A modular adaptable code for parameter estimation, sensitivity analysis and uncertainty analysis for laboratory or field tracer experiments

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1200-1209

  Tang, Guoping ^a   Mayes, Melanie A ^a   Parker, Jack C ^b   Jardine, Philip M ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilibrium nonequilibrium convection dispersion equation; Monte Carlo analysis; Penalty function; Response surface; Weighted nonlinear least squares

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PENALTY FUNCTION; RESPONSE SURFACE; WEIGHTED NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; METAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPREADSHEETS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955921676     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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