Modeling mass transfer processes using random walk particle tracking

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Salamon, P ^a   Fernandez Garcia D ^a   Gomez Hernandez J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

CONCENTRATION RANGE; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM WALK PARTICLE TRACKING;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PROBABILITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACKING;

EID: 33846337551     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR004927     Document Type: Article

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