Effective conductivity of isotropic highly heterogeneous formations: Numerical and theoretical issues

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1178-1183

  Jankovic, Igor ^a   Fiori, Aldo ^b   Dagan, Gedeon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN DISCRETIZATION; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SELF-CONSISTENT APPROXIMATION; STATIONARY RANDOMS; STRONG HETEROGENEITIES;

POROUS MATERIALS;

MODEL STRUCTURES;

HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; ISOTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SPATIAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 84876564618     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012441     Document Type: Article

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