Enhanced mixing and reaction through flow focusing in heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Werth, Charles J ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^b   Grathwohl, Peter ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MIXING;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DISPERSIVITIES; PERMEABILITY FIELDS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MIXING; POROUS MATERIALS;

MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PLUME; POLLUTANT; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

EID: 33846630497     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004511     Document Type: Article

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