Large time asymptotics in contaminant transport in porous media

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 965-993

  Dawson, C N ^a   Van Duijn, C J ^b   Grundy, R E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic profiles; Nonlinear diffusion; Two dimensional contaminant transport

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CALCULATIONS; DIFFUSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ASYMPTOTIC PROFILES; COMPLETE INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM; EQUILIBRIUM ADSORPTION; FREUNDLICH ISOTHERM; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; POROUS MEDIA; TIME SCALED SPACE; TWO DIMENSIONAL CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0030215131     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S003613999427629X     Document Type: Article

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