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CONV-09. Proceedings of International Symposium on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Sustainable Energy
April 26 - May 1, 2009, Hammamet, Tunisia

DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2009.CONV


ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-261-4

ISSN Online: 2642-3499

ISSN Flash Drive: 2642-3502

BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF HYDRAULIC AND SOLUTE TRANSPORT PARAMETERS FROM LABORATORY SOIL COLUMN EXPERIMENTS

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DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2009.CONV.690
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ABSTRACT

This work deals with the characterization of unsaturated hydraulic and solute transport properties of soils in small-scale laboratory column experiments. A Bayesian approach of parameter estimation is applied and the unknown parameters are estimated with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Method, through the implementation of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. The sensitivity coefficients are examined in order to determine the most meaningful measurements for the identification of the unknown parameters. Results obtained with simulated measurements reveals the robustness of the proposed approach.

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