Numerical simulation of air sparging for remediation of NAPL contamination

Ground Water

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-110

  McCray, John E ^a,b   Falta, Ronald W ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PERMEABILITY; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR SPARGING; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT CODE; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS (NAPL);

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0030767983     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1997.tb00065.x     Document Type: Article

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