A self-consistent approach for calculating the effective hydraulic conductivity of a binary, heterogeneous medium

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Pozdniakov, Sergey ^a   Tsang, Chin Fu ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective hydraulic conductivity; Fractured porous medium; Heterogeneity; Self consistent approach

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INCLUSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; TENSORS;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; NUMERICAL MODELING; SPATIAL DENSITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 2942720798     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002617     Document Type: Article

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