Advective Transport in Heterogeneous Formations: The Impact of Spatial Anisotropy on the Breakthrough Curve

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 295-304

  Zarlenga, Antonio ^a   Janković, Igor ^b   Fiori, Aldo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Breakthrough curve; Heterogeneous porous formations; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF WATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; LONGITUDINAL MASS; SELF-CONSISTENT APPROXIMATION; SPATIAL ANISOTROPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS;

ANISOTROPY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADVECTION; AQUIFER; AUTOCORRELATION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; FLOW MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84871345546     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0088-8     Document Type: Article

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