Hydraulic conductivity field characterization from the joint inversion of hydraulic heads and self-potential data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3502-3522

  Soueid Ahmed, A ^a   Jardani, A ^a   Revil, A ^b,c   Dupont, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

adjoint state method; hydraulic conductivity; hydraulic tomography; joint inversion; permeability; self potential

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ESTIMATION; GROUNDWATER; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

ADJOINT-STATE METHOD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; FIELD CHARACTERIZATION; HYDRAULIC TOMOGRAPHIES; JOINT INVERSION; SELF POTENTIAL; SELF-POTENTIAL SIGNALS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEM; POISSON RATIO; POREWATER; PUMPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84898722423     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014645     Document Type: Article

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