Multiscaling fractional advection-dispersion equations and their solutions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Schumer, Rina ^a   Benson, David A ^a   Meerschaert, Mark M ^b   Baeumer, Boris ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anomalous; Dispersion; Fractal; Fractional; Fracture; Transport

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

WATER RESOURCES;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AQUIFER; FLOW MODELING; FRACTURED MEDIUM; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0037490225     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR001229     Document Type: Article

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