Inverse modeling of flow tomography experiments in fractured media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7255-7265

  Klepikova, Maria V ^a   Le Borgne, Tanguy ^a   Bour, Olivier ^a   De Dreuzy, Jean Raynald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

connectivity; flow in fractured rock; flowmeter; inverse modeling

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; CONNECTIVITY; CONNECTIVITY PATTERN; FRACTURE CONNECTIVITY; FRACTURED ROCK; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INVERSE MODELING; MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS;

AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; FRACTURE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY;

BOREHOLES;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; CONNECTIVITY; FLOW MODELING; FLOWMETER; FRACTURED MEDIUM; HETEROGENEITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSIVITY;

EID: 84887191370     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR013722     Document Type: Article

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