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Transport in Porous Media
March 1995, Volume 18, Issue 3, pp 231-243
Date: 03 Dec 2013

Advective and dispersive mixing in stratified formations

Abstract
The mixing process in fluid flow is presented as the bending and stretching of material lines or filaments.
A mixing exponent, which quantifies their specific rate of stretching, is defined and analyzed for the case
of groundwater flow though stratified formations characterized by a Gaussian autocovariance function.
The analysis is performed for purely advective mixing as well as for advective-dispersive mixing. The
mixing exponent was found to be proportional to the variance of hydraulic conductivity and inversely
proportional to the correlation scale of hydraulic conductivity and to the pore-level dispersion coefficient.
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Title
Advective and dispersive mixing in stratified formations
Journal
Transport in Porous Media
Volume 18, Issue 3 , pp 231-243
Cover Date
1995-03-01
DOI
10.1007/BF00616933
Print ISSN
0169-3913
Online ISSN
1573-1634
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Topics
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Hydrogeology
Classical Continuum Physics
Keywords
Stratified formations
kinematic mixing
dispersion
random fields
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Authors
Gilberto E. Urroz (1)
Yang Ma (1)
Marian W. Kemblowski (1)
Author Affiliations
1. Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, 84322-8200, Logan, UT,
USA

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