Effective transport dynamics in porous media with heterogeneous retardation properties

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Dentz, Marco ^a   Castro, Adolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALKS; EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIAN; EQUILIBRIUM ADSORPTIONS; LAGRANGIAN; LENGTH SCALE; LOCAL SCALE; NON-FICKIAN; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE MOTIONS; POROUS MEDIAS; RANDOM WALKS; SMALL SCALE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITIES; TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSITION LENGTHS; TRANSITION TIME; TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; TRANSPORT MODELS; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; EQUILIBRIUM ADSORPTION; LAGRANGIAN FRAMEWORKS; RANDOM RETARDATION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; UPSCALING;

ADSORPTION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; POROUS MATERIALS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MASS TRANSFER;

ADSORPTION; EQUILIBRIUM; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 65349087846     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036846     Document Type: Article

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