Geological modeling of submeter scale heterogeneity and its influence on tracer transport in a fluvial aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Ronayne, Michael J ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^b   Zheng, Chunmiao ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE-DISPERSIVE TRANSPORT; AIR FORCE BASE; AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; COLUMBUS; CONNECTED CHANNELS; CORE SAMPLING; FIELD DATA; GAUSSIANS; GEOLOGIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOSTATISTICAL; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LITHOFACIES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MACRODISPERSION EXPERIMENTS; MATRIX; MISSISSIPPI; NEW MODEL; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RECOVERY CURVES; TRACER RESPONSE; TRACER TESTS; TRACER TRANSPORT;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION; CORE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; TRACER;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958456591     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009348     Document Type: Article

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