An exact particle tracking algorithm for advective-dispersive transport in networks with complete mixing at nodes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Rhodes, Matthew E ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ADVECTIVE-DISPERSIVE TRANSPORT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL BONDS; RANDOM WALK SIMULATIONS; VOLUME-LESS NODES;

WATER ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DISPERSIONS; MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER ANALYSIS;

ADVECTION; ALGORITHM; DISPERSION;

EID: 33744791164     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004504     Document Type: Article

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