Impacts of developed tools of heterogenous characterization on the hydrodynamics of flow and the transport mechanisms are illustrated in this text through a series of extensive numerical simulations consisting of single and multiple-realizations (Monte Carlo method).

Barends, F.B.J.

PREFACE, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 REVIEW OF THE THEORY OF STOCHASTIC MODELLING OF SUBSURFACE POROUS FLOW AND TRANSPORT, 3 NEW METHODOLOGY FOR GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION, 4 FLOW IN HETEROGENEOUS FORMATIONS CHARACTERIZED BY A COUPLED MARKOV CHAIN MODEL, 5 A HYBRID STOCHASTIC MODEL COMBINING SOFT INFORMATION AND HARD DATA, 6 FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN HETEROGENEOUS FORMATIONS: SINGLE REALIZATION APPROACH, 7 PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY OF SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN HETEROGENEOUS FORMATIONS, 8 LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ON SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA, 9 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS, Index