A computationally practical approach for modeling complex mean flows in mildly heterogeneous media

Water Resources Research

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

  Li, Shu Guang ^a   Liao, H S ^a   Ni, Chuen Fa ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Closure flux; Heterogeneous porous media; Nonstationary spectral method; Numerical technique; Scale effects; Stochastic methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMPLEX MEAN FLOWS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; NONSTATIONARY SPECTRAL METHOD; NONUNIFORM MEAN FLOWS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 12544255949     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003469     Document Type: Review

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