Effective Parameters of Hydrogeological Models
By: by Vikenti Gorokhovski
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9783642237225
Subjects: Heat and Mass Transfer Engineering Thermodynamics; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Earth sciences; Engineering; Environmental sciences; Hydraulic engineering; Hydrogeology; Earth Sciences, general; Geography
Description: Models of geological objects are tools for interpolation and extrapolation of available data in space and time continuously. Real structures of the objects are unknown, and their models and simulated results carry uncertainty which cannot be evaluated in a provable way. The real issue is obtaining effective predictions in a reasonably defined sense. This requires a knowledge of mechanisms that convert actual geological properties into effective model parameters. These mechanisms are introduced in the book. They reveal that effective parameters are not statistics but characteristics optimizing the system made up by geological surroundings, their models, predictive problem formulations, including mathematical models of the simulated processes, boundary conditions, monitoring networks, criteria of efficiency and even by time. Examples of evaluating and applying transformation for assigning effective parameters and solving inverse problems are presented.