Fractional advection-dispersion equations for modeling transport at the Earth surface

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Schumer, Rina ^a   Meerschaert, Mark M ^b   Baeumer, Boris ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; FLOW FIELD; FLOW VELOCITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICULATE FLUX; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE TIME; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SETTLING VELOCITY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 77954316974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF001246     Document Type: Article

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