Use of a variable-index fractional-derivative model to capture transient dispersion in heterogeneous media

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 157, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-58

  Sun, Hongguang ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b   Chen, Wen ^a   Reeves, Donald M ^c  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous dispersion; Contaminant transport; Numerical solutions; Transient dispersion; Variable index model

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; DISPERSIVE BEHAVIORS; MEDIUM HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POROUS AND FRACTURED MEDIAS;

DISPERSIONS;

EULERIAN ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRANSIENT FLOW;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DYNAMICS; EULERIAN METHOD; FICKIAN DIFFUSION; LAGRANGIAN SOLVER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUTE; TRANSIENT DISPERSION; TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; VARIABLE INDEX FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVE MODEL;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; TRANSIENT DISPERSION; VARIABLE-INDEX MODEL;

GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84889261030     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: 18736009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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