A joint velocity-concentration PDF method for tracer flow in heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Meyer, Daniel W ^a   Jenny, Patrick ^b   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; ANISOTROPIC DISPERSION; CLOSURE ASSUMPTIONS; COMPLEX CORRELATION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; EULERIAN; GAUSSIANS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HIGH RESOLUTION; JOINT VELOCITY; LAGRANGIAN VELOCITY; LONG RANGE CORRELATIONS; MARKOVIAN; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NON-GAUSSIAN; PDF METHODS; PDF TRANSPORT; PERTURBATION EXPANSIONS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); REFERENCE DATA; SPACE AND TIME; SUBSURFACE FORMATIONS; VELOCITY FIELD;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IMPURITIES; POROUS MATERIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VELOCITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ADVECTION; ANISOTROPY; DATA SET; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 78650271353     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009450     Document Type: Article

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