Steady plumes in heterogeneous porous formations: A stochastic Lagrangian approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 864-873

  Zarlenga, A ^a   Fiori, A ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DISPERSIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATED SOLUTIONS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; LA-GRANGIAN APPROACHES; LONGITUDINAL COMPONENTS; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIONS; TRAJECTORY FLUCTUATIONS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ADVECTION; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DISPERSION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE; STEADY FLOW; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84876528079     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20106     Document Type: Article

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