Large-scale sandbox experiment on longitudinal effective dispersion in heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1-13

  Jose, Surabhin C ^a,c   Rahman, M Arifur ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dilution; Effective dispersion; Heterogeneous porous media; Mixing; Sandbox; Temporal moments

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; POROUS MATERIALS; SAND; SILICA;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LARGE-SCALE SANDBOX; MACRODISPERSION; TRACER TESTS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DISPERSION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MIXING; POROUS MEDIUM; TRACER;

EID: 12544254719     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003363     Document Type: Article

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