Laboratory experiments on dispersive transport across interfaces: The role of flow direction

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Berkowitz, Brian ^a   Cortis, Andrea ^b   Dror, Ishai ^a   Scher, Harvey ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATIONS; ASYMMETRIC BEHAVIORS; BREAK THROUGH CURVES; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; CONVENTIONAL MODELING; DISPERSIVE TRANSPORTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCES; FLOW DIRECTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; POROUS MEDIAS; RATE INCREASE; STEADY-STATE FLOW FIELDS; TIME DEPENDENTS; TRACKING SIMULATIONS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

ASYMMETRY; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DISPERSION; FLOW FIELD; HETEROGENEITY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY FLOW; TRACER;

EID: 62949194253     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007342     Document Type: Article

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