Continuous time random walk analysis of solute transport in fractured porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Cortis, Andrea ^a   Birkholzer, Jens ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; FLUID MECHANICS; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; CONTINUOUS-TIME RANDOM WALK; CONTINUUM MODELING; DISCRETE SIMULATIONS; DISPERSIVE TRANSPORT; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; MACROSCOPIC MODELING; MACROSCOPIC TRANSPORT; MATRIX BLOCKS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; POROUS DOMAINS; POROUS ROCKS; POROUS SANDSTONES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; RESIDENCE TIMES; ROCK TYPES; SOLUTE EXCHANGE; SOLUTE TRANSFER; TRACER EXPERIMENTS; TRANSPORT BEHAVIORS; TRANSPORT PHENOMENON; TRANSPORT PROCESSES;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 49549090690     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006596     Document Type: Article

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