Aquifer operator scaling and the effect on solute mixing and dispersion

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Benson, David A ^a   Meerschaert, Mark M ^b   Baeumer, Boris ^b   Scheffler, Hans Peter ^c  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; SEDIMENTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AQUIFER OPERATOR SCALING; D-DIMENSIONAL EXTENSION; ELLIPTICAL STRETCHING RANDOM K FIELD; NUMERICAL STOCHASTIC SETTINGS;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; SEDIMENTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AQUIFER; BROWNIAN MOTION; DISPERSION; MIXING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 33644799586     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003755     Document Type: Article

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