Flow and solute transport in saturated porous media: 2. Violating the continuum hypothesis

Journal of Porous Media

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 421-441

  Salama, Amgad ^a   Van Geel, Paul J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

SECOND LENGTH SCALE CONSTRAINT; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 41849143467     PISSN: 1091028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v11.i5.10     Document Type: Article

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