Transport in multiscale log conductivity fields with truncated power variograms

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 963-973

  Di Federico, Vittorio ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION; FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DISPERSION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DISPERSIONS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW;

DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC; HURST COEFFICIENT; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIVITY; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; MULTISCALE HIERARCHIES; POWER VARIOGRAMS; VARIABLE SEPARATION;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

EID: 0031982274     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR00221     Document Type: Article

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