Nonstationary flow and nonergodic transport in random porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Darvini, G ^a   Salandin, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NONERGODIC TRANSPORT; NONSTATIONARY FLOW; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DARCY LAW; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW FIELD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STEADY FLOW; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 33846600992     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004846     Document Type: Article

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