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Effect of scale on solute dispersion in saturated porous media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Vijay K. Gupta
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
R. N. Bhatiacharya
Affiliation:
Indiana University

Extract

Consider a saturated porous m edium in which water is flowing slowly with a steady velocity. Suppose at some space-time scale the concentration C(x, r) of a non-reactive dilute solute is governed by the following Fokker-Planck differential equation:

Type
Applied Probability in Biology and Engineering. An ORSA/TIMS Special Interest Meeting
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

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