Measuring and modeling the dissolution of nonideally shaped dense nonaqueous phase liquid pools in saturated porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 8-1-8-14

  Dela Barre, Brian K ^a   Harmon, Thomas C ^a   Chrysikopoulos, Constantinos V ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolution; DNAPL; Mass transfer; Pool; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLAY; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS; STEADY FLOW;

INTERFACIAL AREA;

WATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; SATURATED MEDIUM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 0036702804     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000444     Document Type: Article

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