Comparison of laboratory-scale solute transport visualization experiments with numerical simulation using cross-bedded sandstone

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1731-1741

  Klise, Katherine A ^a   Tidwell, Vincent C ^a   McKenna, Sean A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Heterogeneity; Numerical simulation; Sandstone; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; SANDSTONE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ABSORPTION IMAGING; BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; CENTIMETER RESOLUTIONS; DISPERSION EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL ERRORS; GEOLOGIC MEDIAS; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LARGE DISCREPANCIES; MASSILLON SANDSTONES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PROPERTY CHARACTERIZATIONS; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SOLUTE TRACERS; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENTS;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 55649090541     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.08.013     Document Type: Article

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