Evaluation of the first-order approximations for transport in heterogeneous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Suciu, N ^a   Vamos C ^b   Eberhard, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DISPERSIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA;

HYDROLOGY;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DISPERSIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DARCY LAW; DISPERSION; FLOW VELOCITY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 33846362275     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004714     Document Type: Article

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