Upscaling for stationary transport in heterogeneous porous media

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 957-976

  Eberhard, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective dispersion; Heterogeneity; Porous media; Transport; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CORRELATION DETECTORS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EFFECTIVE DISPERSION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 28844465982     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040604157     Document Type: Article

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