Effect of Mean Network Coordination Number on Dispersivity Characteristics

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 447-463

  Vasilyev, Leonid ^a   Raoof, Amir ^b   Nordbotten, Jan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coordination number; Dispersion; Pore network models; Porous media

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS EFFECTS; BASIC PARAMETERS; COORDINATION NUMBER; CUBIC LATTICE; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; DISPERSIVITY; EXPLICIT FORMULA; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; IDEAL MIXING; LOW COORDINATION; MEAN COORDINATION NUMBERS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; NETWORK COORDINATIONS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PORE THROAT; PORE-NETWORK MODELS; POROUS NETWORKS; POROUS STRUCTURES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TAYLOR DISPERSION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS;

TOPOLOGY;

DISPERSION; FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867100503     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0054-5     Document Type: Article

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