Generalized dual porosity: A numerical method for representing spatially variable sub-grid scale processes

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 535-544

  Zyvoloski, George A ^a   Robinson, Bruce A ^a   Viswanathan, Hari S ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized dual porosity; Groundwater modeling; Solute transport modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

GENERALIZED DUAL POROSITY METHOD; GROUNDWATER MODELING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ALGORITHM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW FIELD; FLOW STRUCTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROSITY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 39149093011     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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