Comparison of Approaches for Predicting Solute Transport: Sandbox Experiments

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 421-431

  Illman, Walter A ^a   Berg, Steven J ^a   Yeh, Tian Chyi Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; FIELD SCALE; FORWARD SIMULATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION PREDICTION; HYDRAULIC TESTS; K DISTRIBUTION; K-VALUES; KRIGING; ORDINARY KRIGING; SANDBOX EXPERIMENTS; SEQUENTIAL SUCCESSIVE LINEAR ESTIMATORS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; TEMPORAL MOMENTS; TRACER TRANSPORT;

AQUIFERS; CORE SAMPLES; FORECASTING; INTERPOLATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

GROUND WATER;

AQUIFER; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSION; DRAWDOWN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; KRIGING; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84860382357     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00859.x     Document Type: Article

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