Reactive solute transport in a nonstationary, fractured porous medium: A dual-porosity approach

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-202

  Xu, Jie ^a,b   Hu, Bill X ^a,b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual porosity; Equilibrium sorption; Nonstationary; Solute flux; Time retention function

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUILIBRIUM; SOLUTE FLUXES; STOCHASTIC METHODS; TRANSVERSE DISPLACEMENT DISTRIBUTIONS;

DIFFUSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUXES; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; METHOD OF MOMENTS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 4344689900     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TIPM.0000038263.26514.da     Document Type: Article

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