Transport in chemically and mechanically heterogeneous porous media. I: Theoretical development of region-averaged equations for slightly compressible single-phase flow

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-47

  Quintard, Michel ^a   Whitaker, Stephen ^b  

^a ARTS ET MÉTIERS PARISTECH   (France)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange coefficient; Fractured medium; Heterogeneous porous medium; Large scale permeability; Model of Barenblatt and Zheltov; Porous medium; Two equation model; Weakly compressible fluid

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; EQUATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS; POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH; SLIGHTLY/SINGLE PHASE;

ADSORPTION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MASS TRANSFER; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY;

DARCY LAW; DIFFUSIVE CROSS EFFECT; DISPERSION TENSORS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LIQUID-PHASE FLOW; REGION-AVERAGED EQUATIONS; SINGLE PHASE FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT COEFFICIENTS; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW;

GROUND WATER;

DARCY'S LAW; GROUNDWATER MODELLING; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM; REGION AVERAGED EQUATION; SINGLE PHASE FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THEORY;

ADSORPTION; DISPERSION; MODEL; SOLUTE;

EID: 0029657583     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0309-1708(95)00023-C     Document Type: Article

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