Effective dispersion in heterogeneous media under random transient flow conditions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Cirpka, Olaf A ^a   Attinger, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Effective dispersion; Heterogeneity; Mixing; Spectral methods; Transient flow

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISPERSIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STEADY FLOW;

STEADY STATE FLOW;

WATER RESOURCES;

DISPERSION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MIXING; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY FLOW; TRANSIENT FLOW;

DISPERSION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM; TRANSIENT FLOW;

EID: 1542652182     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001931     Document Type: Article

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