Origins of anomalous transport in heterogeneous media: Structural and dynamic controls

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1490-1505

  Edery, Yaniv ^a   Guadagnini, Alberto ^b,c   Scher, Harvey ^a   Berkowitz, Brian ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

continuous time random walk; critical path analysis; disordered porous media; particle tracking

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALKS; CONTINUOUS-TIME RANDOM WALK; DISORDERED POROUS MEDIAS; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; PARTICLE TRACKING; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84894232752     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015111     Document Type: Article

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