Lessons learned from 25 years of research at the MADE site

Ground Water

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 649-662

  Zheng, Chunmiao ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^b   Gorelick, Steven M ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FORCE BASE; COLUMBUS; CONNECTED NETWORKS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT STUDIES; DATA SETS; FIELD DATA; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD RESEARCH; FIELD STUDIES; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; IMPROVED MODELS; MACRODISPERSION EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; MISSISSIPPI; MODELING ANALYSIS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RELATIVE FLOW; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TRANSPORT THEORY;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

RESEARCH;

ADVECTION; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RESEARCH WORK; SOLUTE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

MISSISSIPPI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958512305     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00753.x     Document Type: Review

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