Investigation of small-scale preferential flow with a forced-gradient tracer test

Ground Water

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 503-514

  Bianchi, Marco ^a   Zheng, Chunmiao ^a   Tick, Geoffrey R ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; ARRIVAL TIME; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DISPERSION PROCESS; EXTRACTION WELLS; FLOW CONDITION; GAUSSIANS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MACRODISPERSION EXPERIMENTS; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; TEST SITE; TRACER EXPERIMENT; TRACER TESTS; TRANSPORT MODELS;

AQUIFERS; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WELLS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION; AQUIFER; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; FIELD SURVEY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SAMPLER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY; TRACER; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER CYCLE; WATER FLOW;

EARTH SCIENCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER CYCLE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 79959515076     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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