Pore-scale modeling of transverse dispersion in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Bijeljic, Branko ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PECLET NUMBER; SANDSTONE;

PORE-SCALE MODELING; RANDOM WALK METHOD; STOKES EQUATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PECLET NUMBER; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE;

BEREA SANDSTONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 38549088496     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005700     Document Type: Article

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