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Polynomial chaos expansion for global sensitivity analysis applied to a model of radionuclide migration in a randomly heterogeneous aquifer
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Ciriello, Valentina Federico, Vittorio Di Riva, Monica Cadini, Francesco Sanctis, Jacopo De Zio, Enrico Guadagnini, Alberto |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | We perform global sensitivity analysis (GSA) through polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) on a contaminant transport model for the assessment of radionuclide concentration at a given control location in a heterogeneous aquifer, following a release from a near surface repository of radioactive waste. The aquifer hydraulic conductivity is modeled as a stationary stochastic process in space. We examine the uncertainty in the first two (ensemble) moments of the peak concentration, as a consequence of incomplete knowledge of (a) the parameters characterizing the variogram of hydraulic conductivity, (b) the partition coefficient associated with the migrating radionuclide, and (c) dispersivity parameters at the scale of interest. These quantities are treated as random variables and a variance-based GSA is performed in a numerical Monte Carlo framework. This entails solving groundwater flow and transport processes within an ensemble of hydraulic conductivity realizations generated upon sampling the space of the considered random variables. The Sobol indices are adopted as sensitivity measures to provide an estimate of the role of uncertain parameters on the (ensemble) target moments. Calculation of the indices is performed by employing PCE as a surrogate model of the migration process to reduce the computational burden. We show that the proposed methodology (a) allows identifying the influence of uncertain parameters on key statistical moments of the peak concentration (b) enables extending the number of Monte Carlo iterations to attain convergence of the (ensemble) target moments, and (c) leads to considerable saving of computational time while keeping acceptable accuracy. |
| Starting Page | 945 |
| Ending Page | 954 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00477-012-0616-7 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/52798087.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hal-supelec.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00926341/document |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-012-0616-7 |
| Volume Number | 27 |
| Journal | Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
