Blueprint for perturbative solution of flow and transport in strongly heterogeneous composite media using fractal and variational multiscale decomposition

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Neuman, Shlomo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FRACTALS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FRACTAL DECOMPOSITIONS; MULTISCALE DECOMPOSITIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; STOCHASTIC FLOW;

FLOW OF WATER;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FLOW OF WATER; FRACTALS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STOCHASTICITY; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 33746619536     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004315     Document Type: Article

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