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 …

The concept of vulnerability of drinking water sources is reviewed, and a quantitative
approach for assessing well vulnerability for complex three‐dimensional ground water …

Identification of pollutant s ources for river pollution incidents is an important and difficult task
in the emergency rescue, and an intelligent optimization method can effectively compensate …

The rapid expansion of unconventional oil and gas development (UD), made possible by
horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has triggered concerns over groundwater …

Contaminant source identification is an important type of inverse problem in groundwater
modeling and is subject to both data and model uncertainty. Model uncertainty was rarely …

Protection and sustainability of water supply wells requires the assessment of vulnerability to
contamination and the delineation of well capture zones. Capture zones, or more generally …

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 …

Backward location and travel time probability density functions characterize the possible
former locations (or the source location) of contamination that is observed in an aquifer. For …

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 …

Random walk particle tracking (RWPT) is a discrete particle method that offers several
advantages for simulating solute transport in heterogeneous geological systems. The …