Temporal-moment matching for truncated breakthrough curves for step or step-pulse injection

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1306-1313

  Luo, Jian ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^b   Kitanidis, Peter K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breakthrough curve; Step input; Step pulse input; Temporal moments; Truncation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; STEP INPUT; STEP-PULSE INPUT; TEMPORAL MOMENTS; TRUNCATION;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACER; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 33746411114     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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