Anisotropy, lacunarity, and upscaled conductivity and its autocovariance in multiscale random fields with truncated power variograms

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2891-2908

  Di Federico, Vittorio ^a   Neuman, Shlomo P ^b   Tartakovsky, Daniel M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 0032872030     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900158     Document Type: Article

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