A solute flux approach to transport through bounded, unsaturated heterogeneous porous media

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 513-526

  Sun, Alexander Y ^a   Zhang, Dongxiao ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRAVEL TIME;

BREAK THROUGH CURVE; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MOMENT EQUATIONS; NON-STATIONARITIES; NUMBER OF FACTORS; TRANSVERSE DISPLACEMENTS; UNSATURATED FLOWS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 83455186627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.2.513     Document Type: Article

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