One- and three-dimensional soil transportation models for volatiles migrating from soils to house interiors

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 301-323

  Robinson, Neville I ^a   Turczynowicz, L ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benzene; Bessel function; Crawl space; Dual integral equation; Exposure assessment; Laplace transform; Soil transport equation; VOC

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; HOUSES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

NOVEL DUAL INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SOIL SURFACE FLUX BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SOIL TRANSPORTATIONS; TRANSIENT MIGRATIONS;

SOILS;

INDOOR AIR; SOIL EMISSION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 14944363572     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-004-2554-4     Document Type: Article

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