Anomalous dispersion, renormalization groups, scaling laws and classification: A reflection on recent efforts

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 207-214

  Cushman, John H ^a   O'Malley, Daniel ^a   Park, Moongyu ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion dispersion; Central limit theorems; Renormalization groups

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; MEAN SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; RENORMALIZATION GROUP TECHNIQUE; SELF-SIMILARITIES;

POROUS MATERIALS; SCALING LAWS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW;

EID: 84888294446     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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