Upscaling transport with mass transfer models: Mean behavior and propagation of uncertainty

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Fernandez Garcia D ^a   Llerar Meza, G ^b   Jaime Gomez Hernandez J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CONVENIENT ALTERNATIVES; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DISPERSION MODELS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW RESOLUTION; MASS FLUX; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; MEMORY FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI RATE; POWER LAW; REFERENCE SOLUTION; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SINGLE RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISPERSION; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT MODELS; TRANSPORT SIMULATION; TRANSPORT SOLUTION; UPSCALING;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; HEAT FLUX; MASS TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

SIMULATORS;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; MASS TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

EID: 72149115428     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007764     Document Type: Article

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