Non-Fickian transport through two-dimensional rough fractures: Assessment and prediction

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 871-884

  Wang, Lichun ^a   Cardenas, M Bayani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

CTRW; Fractures; Navier Stokes; Non Fickian transport

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; FORECASTING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATION; CONTINUOUS-TIME RANDOM WALK MODELS; CTRW; DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; FRACTURE HETEROGENEITIES; NAVIER STOKES; NON-FICKIAN TRANSPORTS; ROUGH-WALLED FRACTURES;

FRACTURE;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DISPERSION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; HETEROGENEITY; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW; PREDICTION; RANDOM WALK METHOD; ROUGHNESS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 84893177202     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014459     Document Type: Article

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