Speed of free convective fingering in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Xie, Yueqing ^a   Simmons, Craig T ^a   Werner, Adrian D ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE VELOCITY; CORRECTIVE FACTOR; DARCY'S LAW; EFFECTIVE POROSITY; FIELD EXPERIMENTATION; GROUNDWATER ENVIRONMENT; GROUNDWATER PROCESS; LINEAR VELOCITY; MODELING RESULTS; PENETRATION RATES; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; TIME VARYING; UPPER BOUND;

GROUNDWATER; NATURAL CONVECTION; POROUS MATERIALS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

SPEED;

ADVECTION; CONVECTION; DARCY LAW; FINGERING; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PENETRATION; PLUME; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 80455137086     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010555     Document Type: Article

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