HYDROLOGIC INVERSION USING MARCHING-JURY BACKWARD BEAM EQUATION AND QUASI-REVERSIBILITY METHODS

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In this paper, a comparison between the Marching-Jury Backward Beam Equation (MJBBE) and the Quasi-Reversibility (QR) methods to perform hydrologic inversion and, more specifically, to reconstruct conservative contaminant plume spatial distributions is presented. Spatially uncorrelated and correlated, non-stationary, heterogeneous dispersion coefficient fields were generated using the Bayesian Nearest Neighbor Method (B-NNM). The MJBBE is found to be robust enough to handle highly heterogeneous parameters and is able to preserve the salient features of the initial input data. On the other hand, the QR method is superior in handling cases with homogeneous parameters and with initial data that are plagued by uncertainty but it performs very poorly in cases with heterogeneous media.

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