Solute transport in aquifers of arbitrary variability: A time-domain random walk formulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 5759-5773

  Cvetkovic, Vladimir ^a   Fiori, Aldo ^b   Dagan, Gedeon ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

groundwater flow; groundwater transport; heterogeneous aquifers; MADE; solute transport; time domain random walk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904087092     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015449     Document Type: Article

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