Anomalous transport in heterogeneous media demonstrated by streamline-based simulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Di Donato, Ginevra ^a   Obi, Eguono Oghene ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OIL FIELDS; SANDSTONE; THERMAL PLUMES; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

GRID BLOCKS; TRANSIT TIME DISTRIBUTION; ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; NON-GAUSSIAN; SIMULATION MODEL; STREAMLINE SIMULATION; TRANSIT-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

GEOPHYSICS; OIL FIELDS;

OIL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; OIL; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SANDSTONE;

EID: 0348044472     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017196     Document Type: Article

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