A numerical method of moments for solute transport in a porous medium with multiscale physical and chemical heterogeneity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Wu, Jichun ^a,b   Hu, Bill X ^a,c   He, Changming ^a,c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Method of moment; Multiscale heterogeneity; Nonstationarity; Solute flux; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; SORPTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC METHODS;

WATER RESOURCES;

FLOW ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC METHOD;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 2542616063     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001473     Document Type: Article

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