Temporal behavior of a solute cloud in a heterogeneous porous medium 3. Numerical simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 23-1-23-13

  Dentz, Marco ^a   Kinzelbach, Harald ^b   Attinger, Sabine ^c   Kinzelbach, Wolfgang ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Stochastic hydrology; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS;

SOLUTE CLOUDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

GROUNDWATER; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SATURATED MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SATURATED MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0036661612     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000436     Document Type: Article

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