Impact of space-time mesh adaptation on solute transport modeling in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1315-1332

  Esfandiar, Bahman ^a   Porta, Giovanni ^a   Perotto, Simona ^a   Guadagnini, Alberto ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

mesh adaptation; model calibration; porous media; solute transport; time step adaptation; uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ANISOTROPY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; POLYNOMIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; GENERALIZED POLYNOMIAL CHAOS; MESH ADAPTATION; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RECOVERY-BASED ERROR ESTIMATORS; TIME STEP; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CALIBRATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924690127     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016569     Document Type: Article

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