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Benson et al. 2000
Benson, D.A., Wheatcraft, S.W. and Meerschaert, M.M. (2000). Application of a fractional advection-dispersion equation. Water Resources Research 36: doi: 10.1029/2000WR900031. issn: 0043-1397.

A transport equation that uses fractional-order dispersion derivatives has fundamental solutions that are L¿vy's &agr;-stable densities. These densities represent plumes that spread proportional to time1/&agr;, have heavy tails, and incorporate any degree of skewness. The equation is parsimonious since the dispersion parameter is not a function of time or distance. The scaling behavior of plumes that undergo L¿vy motion is accounted for by the fractional derivative. A laboratory tracer test is described by a dispersion term of order 1.55, while the Cape Cod bromide plume is modeled by an equation of order 1.65 to 1.8. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union

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Hydrology, Groundwater transport, Hydrology, Stochastic processes, Mathematical Geophysics, Modeling, Mathematical Geophysics, Fractals and multifractals
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Water Resources Research
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