Traveltime-based descriptions of transport and mixing in heterogeneous domains

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Luo, Jian ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MASS TRANSFER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; DIFFERENT SCALES; DO-MAINS; HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS; KEY OBJECTIVES; LOCAL DISPERSIONS; LONG TAILS; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIONS; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MIXING MECHANISMS; MIXING PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE PEAKS; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; OBSERVATION PLANES; OBSERVATION POINTS; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PHYSICAL TRANSPORTS; PRE-REQUISITES; REACTIVE COMPOUNDS; REACTIVE MIXING; REACTIVE TRANSPORTS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL HOMOGENEITIES; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; STREAM TUBES; STREAMTUBE MODELS; TRANSPORT MODELS; TRAVEL TIMES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; WITH OR WITHOUT;

MIXING;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CALIBRATION; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; KINETICS; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 55249105974     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006035     Document Type: Article

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