Modelling of block-scale macrodispersion as a random function

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 676, Issue , 2011, Pages 514-545

  De Barros, Felipe P J ^a   Rubin, Yoram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

geophysical and geological flows; mixing and dispersion; porous media

Indexed keywords

POROUS MATERIALS; TENSORS; TRAVEL TIME;

DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FLOWS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HIGH FREQUENCY VARIABILITIES; MINIMUM RELATIVE ENTROPY; MIXING AND DISPERSIONS; RANDOM SPACE FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION;

DISPERSIONS;

DISPERSION; ENTROPY; HOMOGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959236538     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.65     Document Type: Article

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