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First-order reliability approach to stochastic analysis of groundwater flow and solute transport

Sitar, Nicholas; Cawlfield, Jeffrey D.; Der Kiureghian, Armen

UCB/GT-85-01, University of California, Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering, 1985-09, PDF (3 MB)

This report presents the first-order reliability approach to stochastic analysis for groundwater and solute transport, which allows for the use of any amount of statistical data, including first and second statistical moments, marginal distributions, partial joint distributions, and full joint distributions.

Available online: http://library.eerc.berkeley.edu/documents/GEOTECH/UCB-GT-85-01.pdf