Effective hydraulic conductivity of bounded, strongly heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1333-1341

  Paleologos, Evangelos K ^a,b   Neuman, Shlomo P ^a   Tartakovsky, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

HETEROGENEOUS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIA;

EID: 0029667849     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR02712     Document Type: Review

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