The impact of medium architecture of alluvial settings on non-Fickian transport

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 78-99

  Zhang, Yong ^a   Green, Christopher T ^b   Fogg, Graham E ^c  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial setting; Breakthrough curve; Hydrofacies model; Monte Carlo simulation; Non Fickian diffusion

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL AQUIFERS; ANISOTROPY RATIO; AQUIFER CHARACTERISTICS; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; FLOOD PLAINS; HETEROGENEOUS ARCHITECTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW PERMEABILITY; MASS DISTRIBUTION; MEAN DISPLACEMENT; MEDIUM HETEROGENEITY; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-RATE MASS TRANSFERS; NON-FICKIAN; NON-FICKIAN DIFFUSION; NON-FICKIAN TRANSPORTS; NONLOCAL TRANSPORT; PARAMETERIZED; POWER-LAW; SUBLINEAR GROWTH; SUPERLINEAR GROWTH; TRACER BREAKTHROUGH CURVES; TRACER TRANSPORT; VOLUMETRIC FRACTIONS;

AQUIFERS; FLOODS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER);

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFER; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFUSION; FLOODPLAIN; HETEROGENEITY; MASS TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SLOPE; TRACER;

EID: 84874004258     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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