Overview of NUFT: A versatile numerical model for simulating flow and reactive transport in porous media

Groundwater Reactive Transport Models

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 212-239

  Hao, Y ^a   Sun, Y ^a   Nitao, J J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiphase and multicomponent flow; NUFT; Numerical model; Porous media; Reactive transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876227637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2174/978160805306311201010212     Document Type: Chapter

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