Research Spotlight: Modeling saturation overshoot in porous media
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Saturation dependence of dispersion in porous media.
In this study, we develop a saturation-dependent treatment of dispersion in porous media using concepts from critical path analysis, cluster statistics of percolation, and fractal scaling of percolation clusters. We calculate spatial solute distributions as a function of time and calculate arrival time distributions as a function of system size. Our previous results correctly predict the range ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0096-3941,2324-9250
DOI: 10.1029/2011eo210012