Solute transport in heterogeneous porous media with long-range correlations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3185-3191

  Di Federico, Vittorio ^a   Zhang, You Kuan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b IA United States   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUME; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

PLUME; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0032848084     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900021     Document Type: Article

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