Binary upscaling - The role of connectivity and a new formula

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 590-604

  Knudby, Christen ^a,b   Carrera, Jesús ^a   Bumgardner, Jim D ^b,c   Fogg, Graham E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Drinking Water Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary medium; Connectivity; Effective hydraulic conductivity; Effective permeability; Percolation; Phase inversion theorem; Preferential flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BINARY MEDIUM; EFFECTIVE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; PHASE INVERSION THEOREM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; UPSCALING;

EID: 31644445298     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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