Macrodispersivity tensor for nonreactive solute transport in isotropic and anisotropic fractal porous media: Analytical solutions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3461-3474

  Zhan, Hongbin ^a,b   Wheatcraft, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; FRACTALS; HYDROGEOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TENSORS;

AQUIFER THICKNESS; ERGODIC CONDITIONS; FRACTAL POROUS MEDIA; LENGTH SCALE; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CASE; NONREACTIVE SOLUTES; STOCHASTIC THEORIES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

AQUIFERS; POROUS MEDIA; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

AQUIFER; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 85035187483     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR02282     Document Type: Article

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