Flow and travel time statistics in highly heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Gotovac, Hrvoje ^a,b   Cvetkovic, Vladimir ^a   Andricevic, Roko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; CONTROL PLANES; EARLY ARRIVAL; ENSEMBLE STATISTICS; EULERIAN; EXPONENTIAL CORRELATION; FICKIAN MODEL; GAUSSIANS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HIGHER ORDER; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN VELOCITY; LOG-NORMAL MODEL; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIVITY; NONNORMAL; ON TIME; POWER-LAW TAIL; RECTANGULAR DOMAIN; SECOND MOMENTS; SIMULATION METHODOLOGY; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE DISPLACEMENTS; TRAVEL TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STEADY FLOW; TWO-PARAMETER MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW SIMULATION; INK; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ADVECTION; FLOW VELOCITY; FLUID FLOW; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STEADY FLOW; TRAVEL TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 69249101625     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007168     Document Type: Article

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