Modeling transport in fractured porous media with the random-walk particle method: The transient activity range and the particle transfer probability

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 16-1-16-7

  Pan, Lehua ^a   Bodvarsson, Gudmundur S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity range; Dual continua; Fractured media; Particle tracking; Particle transfer probability; Transport

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

TRANSFER PROBABILITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

YUCCA;

EID: 0036592327     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000901     Document Type: Article

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