Effects of grain-scale mass transfer on the transport of volatile organics through sediments, 1. Model development

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2713-2726

  Cunningham, Jeffrey A ^a   Werth, Charles J ^a,b   Reinhard, Martin ^a   Roberts, Paul V ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ACTIVATED DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DIFFUSION RATE; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NON-EQUILIBRIUM SORPTION; VOLATILE ORGANICS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 0030657032     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97WR02425     Document Type: Article

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