Sensitivity analysis of unsaturated flow and contaminant transport with correlated parameters

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 397, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 238-249

  Pan, Feng ^a,d   Zhu, Jianting ^b   Ye, Ming ^c   Pachepsky, Yakov A ^a   Wu, Yu Shu ^e  

^a Environmental Microbiology and Food Safety Laboratory   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Contaminant transport; Parameter correlation; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty analysis; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CORRELATED PARAMETERS; DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS; MODEL INPUTS; NEVADA , USA; PARAMETER CORRELATION; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTIVE UNCERTAINTY; REACTIVE TRACER; REGRESSION METHOD; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SAMPLING-BASED; SORPTION COEFFICIENTS; TRACER MASS; TRACER TRANSPORT; UNSATURATED FLOWS; UNSATURATED ZONE; WATER TABLES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; ZEOLITIC TUFF;

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLVENTS; SORPTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PERCOLATION; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; ZEOLITE;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 78651369017     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.11.045     Document Type: Article

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