Tough: Model use, calibration, and validation

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1275-1290

  Finsterle, S ^a   Kowalsky, M B ^a   Pruess, K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ITOUGH2; Nonisothermal multiphase flow simulation; Parameter estimation; Sensitivity analysis; TOUGH2; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MODELS; CALIBRATION DATA; COMPLEX TOPOLOGY; CRITICAL INPUTS; DATA COLLECTION; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; FORWARD MODELS; GEOLOGICAL MEDIA; INFORMATION CONTENTS; ITOUGH2; MINIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MODEL CALIBRATION; MULTICOMPONENT FLOW; NONISOTHERMAL; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OBSERVATION DATA; PREDICTIVE SIMULATIONS; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOUGH2; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

CALIBRATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TOPOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867348981     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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