Contents: Important Terms, xiii ; Symbols, xv ; 1 Introduction, 3 ; 2 Fundamentals of Stochastic Site Characterization, 13 ; 3 Estimation and Simulation, 60 ; 4 Moments of the Flow Variables, Part I: The Flow Equation and the Hydraulic Head, 86 ; 5 Moments of the Flow Variables, Part II: The Effective Conductivity, 121 ; 6 Upscaling, Computational Aspects, and Statistics of the Velocity Field, 140 ; 7 An Overview of Stochastic Tools for Modeling Transport of Tracers in Heterogeneous Media, 161 ; 8 The Eulerian Picture: Principles of the Eulerian Approach to Modeling the Transport of Solutes, 169 ; 9 The Lagrangian Picture, Part I: Fundamentals of the Lagrangian Approach to Solute Transport, 200 ; 10 The Lagrangian Picture, Part II: Models and Applications of the Lagrangian Approach to Solute Transport, 217 ; 11 Vadose Zone, Part I: Characterization and Flow Processes, 288 ; 12 Vadose Zone, Part II: Transport, 312 ; 13 Quantifying and Accounting for Uncertainty, 321 ; References, 357 ; Index, 385 |