Effective hydraulic conductivity of a randomly heterogeneous porous medium

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Stepanyants, Y A ^a   Teodorovich, E V ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Feynman's diagrams; Hydraulic conductivity; Perturbative technique; Porous medium; Random heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; SEEPAGE;

PERTURBATION SERIES; SEEPAGE VELOCITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 1542756388     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR000366     Document Type: Article

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