Improved forward and inverse analyses of saturated-unsaturated flow toward a well in a compressible unconfined aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Mishra, Phoolendra Kumar ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; EARTH SCIENCES;

CONSTITUTIVE PROPERTIES; FINITE THICKNESS; FORWARD ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; PARTIALLY PENETRATING WELLS; SATURATED-UNSATURATED FLOW; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; UNSATURATED ZONE;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 85121847429     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008899     Document Type: Article

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