On transport in porous formations characterized by heterogeneity of evolving scales

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3485-3496

  Bellin, Alberto ^a   Pannone, Marilena ^b,c   Fiori, Aldo ^d   Rinaldo, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; PLUMES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISPERSION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER PROCESSES; PLUME MOMENT; POROUS MEDIUM; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

GEOLOGY; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; EFFECTIVE DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; INTERVAL OF CONFIDENCE; RANDOM SPACE FUNCTIONS; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; SEMI-ANALYTICAL EXPRESSION; STATIONARY INCREMENTS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 0030303352     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR02507     Document Type: Article

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