Nonideal transport of reactive solutes in heterogeneous porous media 5. Simulating regional-scale behavior of a trichloroethene plume during pump-and-treat remediation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2921-2935

  Zhang, Zhihui ^a   Brusseau, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESORPTION; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; REMEDIATION; THERMAL PLUMES;

PUMP-AND-TREAT REMEDIATION; TRICHLOROETHENE;

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; REMEDIATION;

PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; PUMP AND TREAT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0032859207     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900162     Document Type: Article

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