Monte Carlo simulation of superdiffusion and subdiffusion in macroscopically heterogeneous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Zhang, Yong ^a   LaBolle, Eric M ^b   Pohlmann, Karl ^a  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALKS; DERIVATIVE MODELS; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; EFFECTIVE POROSITY; EULERIAN; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVE MODEL; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HITTING TIME; LAGRANGIAN; LANGEVIN; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MOTION COMPONENTS; PARTICLE DYNAMICS; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; REFLECTION PROBABILITY; SUBDIFFUSION; SUPERDIFFUSION; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

SIMULATORS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; POROSITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

EID: 72149104317     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007448     Document Type: Article

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