Behavior of the mass transfer coefficient during the MADE-2 experiment: New insights

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Guan, Jianyong ^a   Molz, Fred J ^b   Zhou, Quanlin ^c   Liu, Hui Hai ^c   Zheng, Chunmiao ^d  

^a Daniel B Stephens and Associates   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY;

MASS TRANSFER RATE COEFFICIENT; OVERALL PLUME GEOMETRY;

MASS TRANSFER;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY;

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERPOLATION; MASS TRANSFER; POROSITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 41149179490     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006120     Document Type: Article

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