The role of scaling laws in upscaling

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 723-736

  Wood, Brian D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Averaging; Coarse graining; Stochastic methods; Subsurface hydrology; Transport; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

AVERAGING; COARSE-GRAINING; STOCHASTIC METHODS; SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGY; TRANSPORT; UPSCALING;

HYDROLOGY; MECHANICS; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WATER;

SCALING LAWS;

FLOW MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; STOCHASTICITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; UPSCALING;

EID: 64849115129     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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