Highly parameterized inverse estimation of hydraulic conductivity and porosity in a three-dimensional, heterogeneous transport experiment

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Yoon, Hongkyu ^a   McKenna, Sean A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; ARRIVAL TIME; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; DATA SETS; DERIVED PROPERTIES; ELEMENT VOLUME; FLOW DIRECTION; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; INVERSE ESTIMATION; LARGE DEVIATIONS; MEASUREMENT LOCATIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONUNIQUENESS; PACKING PATTERNS; PARAMETERIZED; PARAMETERIZED MODEL; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; PROPERTY VALUE; SMALL SCALE; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SPATIAL FIELDS; SUBGRID SCALE; TEMPORAL MOMENTS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS; TRANSPORT MODELING;

ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MIXING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; POTASSIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84868018478     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012149     Document Type: Article

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