Transport in heterogeneous media: Tracer dynamics in complex flow networks

AIChE Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1121-1131

  Başaǧaoǧlu, Hakan ^a   Ginn, Timothy R ^a   Green, Christopher T ^a   McCoy, Benjamin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

TRACER DYNAMICS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

DYNAMICS; FLUID FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; TRACER;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTAMINATION; DISPERSION; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 0036590922     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690480521     Document Type: Article

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