Effects of pore scale dead-end air fingers on relative permeabilities for air sparging in soils

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2909-2919

  Clayton, Wilson S ^a,b,c  

^a NSF Engineering Research Center for Reinventing the Nation s Urban Water Infrastructure   (United States)

^b IT Corporation   (United States)

^c IT Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SPARGING; REMEDIATION; SOIL REMEDIATION;

EID: 0032848062     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900202     Document Type: Article

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