Relative importance of dispersion and rate-limited mass transfer in highly heterogeneous porous media: Analysis of a new tracer test at the Macrodispersion Experiment (MADE) site

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Gaisheng ^a   Zheng, Chunmiao ^b   Tick, Geoffrey R ^b   Butler Jr , James J ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MACRODISPERSION EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER PROCESS; PROFILING METHODS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

CURVE FITTING; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77958502861     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008430     Document Type: Article

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