Modeling pollutant migration in the Upper Palar River Basin, Tamil Nadu, India

Environmental Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 209-222

  Thangarajan, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Groundwater pollution; Mass transport modeling; Method of characteristics; Remediation; Tannery effluents; Total dissolved solids (TDS); Upper Palar Basin

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EFFLUENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RIVER POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

POLLUTANT MIGRATION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

INDIA;

EID: 0032857082     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002540050417     Document Type: Article

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