Probability density functions for passive scalars dispersed in random velocity fields

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Dentz, Marco ^a   Tartakovsky, Daniel M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VELOCITY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; CLOSURE APPROXIMATION; LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORT; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; MIXING MODELS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NON-GAUSSIAN; PASSIVE SCALARS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RANDOM VELOCITY FIELDS; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL FLUCTUATIONS; SYSTEM STATE;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FLOW VELOCITY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79251523178     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045748     Document Type: Article

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