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Dispersion in Heterogeneous Geological Formations

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Editors:
  1. Brian Berkowitz

    1. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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In spite of many years of intensive study, our current abilities to quantify and predict contaminant migration in natural geological formations remain severely limited. The heterogeneity of these formations over a wide range of scales necessitates consideration of sophisticated transport theories. The evolution of such theories has escalated to the point that a review of the subject seems timely. While conceptual and mathematical developments were crucial to the introduction of these new approaches, there are now too many publications that contain theoretical abstractions without regard to real systems, or incremental improvements to existing theories which are known not to be applicable. This volume brings together articles representing a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art approaches for characterization and quantification of contaminant dispersion in heterogeneous porous media.
Audience: The contributions are intended to be as accessible as possible to a wide readership of academics and professionals with diverse backgrounds such as earth sciences, subsurface hydrology, petroleum engineering, and soil physics.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-iii
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  2. Dispersion in Heterogeneous Geological Formations: Preface (Transport in Porous Media — Special Issue)

    • Brian Berkowitz
    Pages 1-2

  3. On Perturbative Expansions to the Stochastic Flow Problem

    • F. Alejandro Bonilla, John H. Cushman
    Pages 3-35

  4. Recursive Conditional Moment Equations for Advective Transport in Randomly Heterogeneous Velocity Fields

    • Alberto Guadagnini, Shlomo P. Neuman
    Pages 37-67

  5. The Relative Dispersion and Mixing of Passive Solutes in Transport in Geologic Media

    • Aldo Fiori
    Pages 69-83

  6. Comparison of Observations from a Laboratory Model with Stochastic Theory: Initial Analysis of Hydraulic and Tracer Experiments

    • S. E. Silliman, L. Zheng
    Pages 85-107

  7. Large-Time Spatial Covariance of Concentration of Conservative Solute and Application to the Cape Cod Tracer Test

    • Marilena Pannone, Peter K. Kitanidis
    Pages 109-132

  8. Macrodispersivity and Large-scale Hydrogeologic Variability

    • Dennis McLaughlin, Feng Ruan
    Pages 133-154

  9. Role of Molecular Diffusion in Contaminant Migration and Recovery in an Alluvial Aquifer System

    • Eric M. Labolle, Graham E. Fogg
    Pages 155-179

  10. Methods of Quantum Field Theory in the Physics of Subsurface Solute Transport

    • Garrison Sposito
    Pages 181-198

  11. The Tracer Transit-Time Tail in Multipole Reservoir Flows

    • Joel Koplik
    Pages 199-209

  12. Fractional Dispersion, Lévy Motion, and the MADE Tracer Tests

    • David A. Benson, Rina Schumer, Mark M. Meerschaert, Stephen W. Wheatcraft
    Pages 211-240

  13. The Role of Probabilistic Approaches to Transport Theory in Heterogeneous Media

    • Brian Berkowitz, Harvey Scher
    Pages 241-263
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

    Brian Berkowitz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dispersion in Heterogeneous Geological Formations

  • Editors: Brian Berkowitz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1278-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6779-6Published: 28 February 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5638-2Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1278-1Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: III, 263

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Terrestrial Pollution, Hydrogeology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Soil Science & Conservation

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