Relevance of local compound-specific transverse dispersion for conservative and reactive mixing in heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Chiogna, Gabriele ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^a   Grathwohl, Peter ^a   Rolle, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFOCUSING; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; EFFECTIVE DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; FIELD SCALE; FLOW FOCUSING; FLOW VARIABILITY; HETEROGENEOUS DOMAINS; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINE SOURCES; LOCAL EFFECTS; LOW DEGREE; MIXING PROCESS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; MULTITRACER; REACTIVE MIXING; REACTIVE SOLUTES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SCALAR DISSIPATION RATE; SPATIAL MOMENT; STEADY STATE; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE MIXING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; MIXING; POROUS MATERIALS;

DISPERSIONS;

DILUTION; DISPERSION; DISSIPATION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960898488     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010270     Document Type: Article

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