Concentration statistics for transport in heterogeneous media due to stochastic fluctuations of the center of mass velocity

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-22

  Dentz, Marco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Concentration statistics; Contaminant transport; Probability density function; Stochastic modeling; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

CENTER OF MASS; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; FLOWTHROUGH; GAUSSIAN STOCHASTIC PROCESS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL VARIANCE; SPREADING RATE; STOCHASTIC FLUCTUATION; STOCHASTIC MODELING; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRACER TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS; VELOCITY CORRELATIONS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; VELOCITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GAUSSIAN METHOD; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 84855252978     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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