The Secret to Successful Solute-Transport Modeling

Ground Water

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 144-159

  Konikow, Leonard F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE LIMIT; COMPLEX FIELDS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CONCENTRATION DATA; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; FIELD SCALE; FLOW EQUATIONS; FLOW PROBLEMS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; LONG SIMULATION TIME; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SEEPAGE VELOCITY; SOLUTE-TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT MODELING;

DISPERSIONS; ERRORS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODELS; SEEPAGE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADVECTION; DISPERSION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEEPAGE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

ARTICLE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOLUTIONS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 79951838075     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00764.x     Document Type: Article

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