Limits of applicability of the advection-dispersion model in aquifers containing connected high-conductivity channels

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Liu, Gaisheng ^a   Zheng, Chunmiao ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection dispersion; Aquifer heterogeneity; Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) site; Percolation theory; Solute transport; Stochastic hydrogeology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RANDOM PROCESSES;

AQUIFER SYSTEMS; MACRODISPERSION MODELS; STOCHASTIC TRANSPORT THEORY;

AQUIFERS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AQUIFER; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; PERCOLATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 4544335116     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002735     Document Type: Article

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