Modeling transverse dispersion and variable density flow in porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-35

  Nick, H M ^a,b   Schotting, R ^b   Gutierrez Neri, M ^b   Johannsen, K ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Density contrast; Heterogeneity; Macro dispersivity; Porous media; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

A DENSITIES; COMPUTER CODES; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DENSITY CONTRAST; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DENSITY-DEPENDENT FLOWS; DISCRETIZATION ERRORS; DISPERSIVE FLUXES; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; FLUID PROPERTIES; FRESH WATERS; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIAS; HIGH DENSITIES; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORTS; MACRO-SCALE; MACRO-SCALE MODELS; MIXING ZONES; MODEL SIMULATIONS; NON LINEARITIES; NON-LINEAR BEHAVIORS; NON-LINEAR MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHYSICAL BEHAVIORS; POROUS MEDIA; SALT CONCENTRATIONS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STEADY STATE; TRANSVERSE DISPERSIONS; TRANSVERSE DISPERSIVITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; VARIABLE DENSITIES; VERTICAL VELOCITIES;

CAPILLARITY; FLOW SIMULATION; MACROS; MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DENSITY CURRENT; FLOW VELOCITY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SIMULATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER;

EID: 64749088886     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9277-x     Document Type: Article

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