Ergodicity and the 'scale effect'

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 20, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 309-316

  Sposito, Garrison ^a,b  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergodicity; Groundwater flow; Plume spreading; Solute transport; Spatial heterogeneity; Tracers in groundwater

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ERGODICITY; PLUME SPREADING; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TRACE PLUME CONVECTION;

AQUIFERS;

GROUNDWATER; MODELLING; PLUMES;

ERGODICITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; PLUME DISPERSION; SCALE EFFECT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0031260273     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0309-1708(96)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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