A new particle-tracking approach to simulating transport in heterogeneous fractured porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Roubinet, Delphine ^a   Liu, Hui Hai ^b   De Dreuzy, Jean Raynald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DIFFUSION; IMPURITIES; MESH GENERATION; MESH NETWORKING; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; MODEL CONTAMINANT; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE-TRACKING METHOD; SIERPINSKI LATTICES; STOCHASTIC METHODS;

FRACTURE;

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; FRACTURE NETWORK; HETEROGENEITY; PARTICLE MOTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY; TRACKING;

EID: 78249247451     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009371     Document Type: Article

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