Particle-based transport model with Markovian velocity processes for tracer dispersion in highly heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Meyer, Daniel W ^a   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE-AVERAGED; FIRST-ORDER; GAUSSIAN BEHAVIOR; GAUSSIANS; HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HYDRAULIC HEADS; LAGRANGIAN VELOCITY; LARGE TRAVEL; MARKOVIAN; MARKOVIAN STOCHASTIC PROCESS; MC SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; NON-GAUSSIAN; OR CHANNELS; PARTICLE-BASED METHODS; PERTURBATION EXPANSIONS; POINT SOURCES; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC TRANSPORT; TRACER CLOUDS; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TRACER DISPERSION; TRACER PARTICLE; TRANSPORT MODELS; VELOCITY STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CONDUCTIVITY; FLOW PATTERN; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARTICLE MOTION; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY; TRACER;

EID: 78649797044     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008925     Document Type: Article

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