TY  - EJOU
AU  - Mustata, R.  
AU  - Harris, S. D.  
AU  - Elliott, L.  
AU  - Lesnic, D.  
AU  - Ingham, D. B.  

TI  - An Inverse Boundary Element Method for Determining the Hydraulic Conductivity in Anisotropic Rocks
T2  - Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences

PY  - 2000
VL  - 1
IS  - 3
SN  - 1526-1506

AB  - An inverse boundary element method is developed to characterise the components of the hydraulic conductivity tensor <b>K</b> of anisotropic materials. Surface measurements at exposed boundaries serve as additional input to a Genetic Algorithm (GA) using a modified least squares functional that minimises the difference between observed and BEM-predicted boundary pressure and/or hydraulic flux measurements under current hydraulic conductivity tensor component estimates.
KW  - Boundary Element Method
KW  -  Genetic Algorithms
KW  -  inverse problems
KW  -  anisotropy
KW  -  hydraulic conductivity

DO  - 10.3970/cmes.2000.001.409