Fractional dispersion, Lévy motion, and the MADE tracer tests

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 211-240

  Benson, David A ^a   Schumer, Rina ^a   Meerschaert, Mark M ^b   Wheatcraft, Stephen W ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Stable; Anomalous dispersion; Fokker planck equation; Fractional derivative; Fractional laplacian; Heavy tails; L vy motion; MADE site

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AQUIFERS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DISPERSIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; THERMAL PLUMES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

HEAVY-TAILED PLUMES; MACRODISPERSIONS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AQUIFER; DISPERSION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; TRACER;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; DISPERSIVITY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; TRACER;

EID: 0035069924     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006733002131     Document Type: Article

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