Inverse modeling of hydraulic tests in fractured crystalline rock based on a transition probability geostatistical approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Blessent, Daniela ^a,b   Therrien, René ^a   Lemieux, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRYSTALLINE BEDROCKS; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK MODELS; FINLAND; FINNISH; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOLOGICAL MEDIA; GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACH; HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTES; HYDRAULIC HEADS; HYDRAULIC TESTS; INTERFERENCE TESTS; INVERSE MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; POTENTIAL SITES; PUMPING TESTS; ROCK BLOCK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GROUNDWATER; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITY; TRANSMISSIVITY;

CALIBRATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FLOW RATE; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WELL LOGGING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOREHOLE; CALIBRATION; CRYSTALLINITY; FRACTURE; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; ROCK; STOCHASTICITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FINLAND; OLKILUOTO; SATAKUNTA;

EID: 84855393976     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011037     Document Type: Article

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