Stochastic flux-related analysis of transverse mixing in two-dimensional heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Cirpka, Olaf A ^a   De Barros, Felipe P J ^b   Chiogna, Gabriele ^a   Rolle, Massimo ^a   Nowak, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CENTRAL MOMENTS; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DECISIVE PROCESS; ENSEMBLE BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEOUS FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEM; HYDRAULIC POTENTIAL; ISOTROPIC MEDIA; LINEAR LAW; MIXING ENHANCEMENT; MIXING-CONTROLLED REACTION; MOMENT ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-LINEAR MODEL; SPATIAL MOMENT; STEADY-STATE TRANSPORT; STREAMFUNCTIONS; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE MACRO-DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE MIXING; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

DISPERSIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MIXING;

FLOW FIELD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MIXING; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STOCHASTICITY; STREAMFLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79959398571     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010279     Document Type: Article

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