An analysis of hydraulic conductivity upscaling

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 4979-4984

  Hristopulos, Dionissios T ^a   Christakos, George ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Darcy's law; Effective conductivity kernel; Functional integrals; Hydraulic conductivity; Non local flow constitutive relations; Porous media; Random fields; Replica method; Stochastic flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001071741     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(96)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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