MADS Applications

MADS has been successfully applied to perform various model analyses related to environmental management.

Examples include:

• quantification of uncertainty associated with estimated model parameters and predictions (UQ)
• analysis of sensitivity of model estimates and predictions to model parameters (SA)
• model calibration
• parameter estimation (PE)
• model selection and model averaging
• design and optimization of monitoring networks
• performance assessment (PA)
• probabilistic risk assessment (PRA)
• remedy selection
• design and optimization of pump-and-treat remedial systems
• contaminant source identification problems

For details, check the lists of publications, presentations, reports, and projects.

Environmental management problems related to fluid flow in subsurface porous media (in the fields of hydrology, hydrogeology, oil & natural gas extraction, etc.; e.g. groundwater flow and contaminant transport in aquifers and vadose zones, carbon (CO2) sequestration, geothermal exploration, coal gasification, hydraulic fracturing, etc.) are particular challenging because of lack of sufficient information to characterize subsurface processes and their parameters.