Large-time behavior of concentration variance and dilution in heterogeneous formations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 623-634

  Pannone, Marilena ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; TENSORS; VECTORS;

DILUTION INDEX; EULERIAN THEORY; LAGRANGIAN METHOD;

THERMAL PLUMES;

ADVECTION; DISPERSION; POROUS MEDIUM;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; DISPERSION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033105350     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900063     Document Type: Article

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