Spatial moments analysis of kinetically sorbing solutes in aquifer with bimodal permeability distribution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Massabo M ^a   Bellin, A ^b   Valocchi, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ELASTIC MODULI; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULICS; STRATIGRAPHY; TRELLIS CODES; WELL LOGGING;

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS; BIMODAL MODELS; CLOSED-FORM SOLUTIONS; CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; EARLY ARRIVALS; ERGODIC; FACIES MODELS; GAUSSIAN; GAUSSIAN FIELDS; GLOBAL PARAMETERS; HIGH CONTRASTS; HYDROFACIES; KINETIC SORPTIONS; MACRODISPERSION; MACRODISPERSIVITY; NONEQUILIBRIUM SORPTIONS; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PERTURBATION EXPANSIONS; RATE EXPRESSIONS; REACTIVE TRACERS; SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOFT DATUMS; SORPTION KINETICS; SPATIAL MOMENTS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITIES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELING; TIME ASYMPTOTIC; TRAVEL TIMES; UNIMODAL; WELL LOGS;

SORPTION;

AQUIFER; HETEROGENEITY; KINETICS; PERMEABILITY; SOLUTE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 55249091155     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006539     Document Type: Article

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