Instabilities in variable density flows: Stability and sensitivity analyses for homogeneous and heterogeneous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-41

  Schincariol, Robert A ^a   Schwartz, Franklin W ^b   Mendoza, Carl A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANTS; INSTABILITY; MODELLING; PLUMES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; DENSITY FLOW; INSTABILITY; PERMEABILITY; PLUME; TRANSPORT MODEL;

POROUS MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY;

CORRELATION LENGTH SCALE; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; SMALL DENSITY DIFFERENCE; STABILITY AND INSTABILITY; VARIABLE-DENSITY FLOWS;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

EID: 0030621224     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR02587     Document Type: Article

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