A comparative study of three-dimensional hydraulic conductivity upscaling at the macro-dispersion experiment (MADE) site, Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi (USA)

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 404, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 278-293

  Li, Liangping ^a   Zhou, Haiyan ^a   Gomez Hernandez J Jaime J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Full tensor; Interblock; MADE site; Non Fickian behavior; Non uniform coarsening; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

FULL TENSOR; INTERBLOCK; MADE SITE; NON-FICKIAN BEHAVIOR; NON-UNIFORM COARSENING; UPSCALING;

COARSENING; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRITIUM;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRITIUM; UPSCALING; VARIOGRAM;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959254457     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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