Reactive transport in disordered media: Role of fluctuations in interpretation of laboratory experiments

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 86-103

  Edery, Yaniv ^a   Guadagnini, Alberto ^b   Scher, Harvey ^a   Berkowitz, Brian ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advection dispersion equation; Bimolecular reactions; Continuous time random walk; Dedolomitization; Multispecies reactions; Particle tracking

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; BIMOLECULAR REACTION; CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALKS; DEDOLOMITIZATION; MULTI-SPECIES; PARTICLE TRACKING;

ADVECTION; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DYNAMICS; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DISSOLUTION; LABORATORY METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RANDOM WALK METHOD; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84872845812     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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