Predicting dispersion in porous media

Complexity

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-55

  Hunt, A G ^a   Skinner, T E ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Percolation theory; solute transport; scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049422444     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20322     Document Type: Article

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