Memory effects induced by dependence on initial conditions and ergodicity of transport in heterogeneous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Suciu, N ^a   Vamos C ^b   Vereecken, H ^c   Sabelfeld, K ^d,e   Knabner, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

CONTAMINANT SOURCES; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIONS; MEAN-FLOW DIRECTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RANDOM VELOCITY FIELDS; SECOND CENTRAL MOMENTS; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION;

DISPERSIONS;

DISPERSION; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 53849144314     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006740     Document Type: Article

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