Transport of colloids in saturated porous media: A pore-scale observation of the size exclusion effect and colloid acceleration

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Sirivithayapakorn, Sanya ^a   Keller, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated transport; Advection; Colloids; Peclet number; Pore size exclusion; Retardation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FILTRATION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

COLLOID EXCLUSION; SIZE EXCLUSION EFFECT;

COLLOIDS;

ADVECTION; FLOW VELOCITY; MASS TRANSFER; PARTICLE SIZE; PORE SIZE; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED MEDIUM;

ADVECTION; COLLOID; FLOW VELOCITY; MASS TRANSPORT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHREATIC ZONE; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 1242296426     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001583     Document Type: Article

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