Fast and accurate identification of unknown pollution sources is a crucial and challenging
task in water resources management, in which the characteristics of unknown pollution …

Forty years and 157 papers later, research on contaminant source identification has grown
exponentially in number but seems to be stalled concerning advancement towards the …

When a contaminant is detected in a drinking well, source location, initial contaminant
release time, and initial contaminant concentration are, in many cases, unknown; the …

The pollution of rivers due to accidental spills is a major threat to environment and human
health. To protect river systems from accidental spills, it is essential to introduce a reliable …

Groundwater pollution occurs from different anthropogenic sources like leakage from
Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) and depositories, leakage from hazardous waste dump …

Release of pollution into rivers is required to be handled with special consideration to
environmental standards. For this purpose, it is essential to specify the contribution of each …

The paper presents a new multi-step approach aiming at source identification and release
history estimation. The new approach consists of three steps: performing integral pumping …

Contamination created by dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) is a serious threat to
the quality of the groundwater supply; thus, delineating and removing the DNAPL source is …

Inverse methods can be used to recover the pollutant source location from concentration
data. In this paper, the relative effectiveness of two proposed methods, simultaneous release …

Contamination of groundwater constrains its uses and poses a serious threat to the
environment. Once groundwater is contaminated, the cleanup may be difficult and …