First-passage-time transfer functions for groundwater tracer tests conducted in radially convergent flow

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 299-310

  Becker, Matthew W ^a   Charbeneau, Randall J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractures; Groundwater; Laplace transformations; Solute transport; Tracers; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

CONVERGENCE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; TRACER;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICS; MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; WATER FLOW; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033990726     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7722(99)00061-3     Document Type: Article

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