Prediction and uncertainty of free convection phenomena in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Xie, Yueqing ^a   Simmons, Craig T ^a   Werner, Adrian D ^a   Diersch, Hans J G ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DHI WASY Institute for Water Resources Planning and Systems Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; FINGERING PATTERNS; FREE CONVECTION SYSTEMS; FREE CONVECTIVE FLOW; GRID CONVERGENCE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; HYDROGEOLOGIC SETTING; MACROSCOPIC VARIABLES; MODEL SIMULATION; NUMBER OF FINGERS; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PARADIGM SHIFTS; PROCESS PREDICTION; SOLUTE FLUX; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODEL; SOURCE ZONE; SPACE AND TIME;

FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECADAL VARIATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; NONLINEARITY; PARADIGM SHIFT; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858054770     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011346     Document Type: Article

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