Quantification of longitudinal dispersion by upscaling Brownian motion of tracer displacement in a 3D pore-scale network model

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 199-213

  Acharya, R C ^a   van Dijke, M I J ^b   Sorbie, K S ^b   Van der Zee, S E A T M ^a   Leijnse, A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Dispersion; Moment methods; Nodal jump condition; Particle tracking; Pore network; Pore to core; Transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; HYDRAULIC JUMP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NON-REACTIVE TRACER PARTICLES; PARTICLE TRACKING; TRACER DISPLACEMENT;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; HYDRAULIC JUMP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BROWNIAN MOTION; CONVECTION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; FLOW MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACER; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 33751405618     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.04.017     Document Type: Article

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