Mechanisms of Anomalous Dispersion in Flow Through Heterogeneous Porous Media

The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) through 10 grant 200021 132304 and by Nagra, Wettingen. MD acknowledges the support of the European Research Council (ERC) through the project MHetScale (617511).

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