Groundwater pollution by organic compounds: A two-dimensional analysis of contaminant transport in stratified porous media with multiple sources of non-equilibrium partitioning

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 14 SPEC. ISS., 1999, Pages 1717-1732

  Elzein, Abbas H ^a   Booker, John R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Contaminant migration; Diffusion advection; Green's functions; Non equilibrium sorption; Porous media

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOIL POLLUTION;

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; NON EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING; STRATIFIED POROUS MEDIA;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0033544471     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9853(19991210)23:14<1717::AID-NAG991>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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