Modeling sub-grid-block-scale dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) pool dissolution using a dual-domain approach

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Falta, Ronald W ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolution; DNAPL; Dual domain; Mass transfer; Modeling; Multiphase

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLUXES; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLUBILITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHEMICAL LEAVING; DENS NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID (DNAPL);

WATER POLLUTION;

ADVECTION; MASS TRANSFER; MODELING; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID;

EID: 1242299689     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002351     Document Type: Article

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