Solute mixing during imbibition and drainage in a macroscopically heterogeneous medium

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Rossi, M ^a   Lehmann, P ^a   Ursino, N ^b,c   Ippisch, O ^b,c   Fluhler H ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; FLOW RATE; MIXING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

PACKED SAND TANK; STATIONARY FLOW FIELD; TEXTURAL BOUNDARIES;

FLOW OF WATER;

DRAINAGE; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW RATE; MIXING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

DRAINAGE; HETEROGENEITY; IMBIBITION; MIXING; QUARTZ; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER FLOW; WETTING;

EID: 34249110988     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004038     Document Type: Article

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